The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) and International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) have recognized Bluffton Hospital and Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH) for excellence in lactation care.
Bluffton and BVH have received the IBCLC Care Award in recognition for staffing professionals who hold the prestigious International Board Certified Lactation Consultant certification (IBCLC) and providing a lactation program that is available five to seven days a week for breastfeeding families.
Apollo Career Center will hold its second ApolloPalooza on February 11, 2014, 5:30-7 p.m., to kick-off National Career and Technical Education Month. ApolloPalooza will showcase both the high school and adult education programs. The event is free and open to the public.
Not much new to report in the weather. Four of the recent five days experienced lows below zero and the temperature hasn't been above 32 for 10 days.
Here's weather summary for the past 10 days, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. The summary is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a brown bag lunch roundtable discussion from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the third floor of the town hall. The discussion was originally set for Feb. 5 but was called off due to the weather.
The roundtable's theme continues the chamber's Jan. 17 breakfast discussion of “How can we improve Bluffton?" The discussion is open to any chamber member and Bluffton resident.
Cody Cook, a Bluffton University junior from Clayton, Kan., puts pins in a world map to mark countries named by Trustworthy Ndlovu (back right).
The pinning took place during one of several campus competitions— athletic and academic—held Feb. 7 in connection with the opening of the Winter Olympics.
Ndlovu, a junior from Zimbabwe, rapidly read the names of 30 nations in the geography contest, and Cook and two opponents had to find as many as they could on their respective maps.
If this squirrel can read and write then we have lots of questions. Dennis Morrison snapped this photo in the backyard of Sam and Janette Reineke's on South Main Street. We suspect that other factors were at work in this photo. Next time you see Dennis ask him for the story. It's probably pretty good.
