This could be you - in a manner of speaking. One of the art works to be auctioned at BCE's Oct. 27 art auction includes a special piece by Bluffton artist Beverly Amstutz. The high bidder of this piece has the opportunity to have Amstutz draw any of the winner's family members (or the winner) in any historic-era costume. This drawing is an example of how the finished piece might appear. Auction details are in the story below.
Once a year area residents have an opportunity to purchase art created by local artists - thanks to the Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs. This year's opportunity is Saturday, Oct. 27.
The event is the BCE's annual dinner and art auction fundraiser. Tickets are now on sale at $50 each or $300 for a table of eight persons.
Bluffton native James Franklin Miller, Sr. died Oct. 14, 2012 at age 93 at his home in Mission, Texas.
He was born on Nov. 20, 1918 in Bluffton, Ohio, to Charles and Bertha Miller. The youngest of five children, he was their only boy. Jim graduated from high school and entered Bluffton College at age 16.
The Bluffton Public Library will host a free Preschool Yoga exercise program for children age 2-6. Special guest instructor Rachel Stutzman will introduce basic yoga poses and breathing exercises during three sessions to be held Wednesday Nov. 7, 14 and 21 at 10 a.m. in the library’s lower level meeting room.
Erma L. Augsburger, 93, of Bluffton died at 10:10 p.m. Oct. 17, 2012, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born July 21, 1919, in Lafayette to Albert O. and Sarah A. Hochstettler Badertscher. On July 21, 1945 she married Ralph E. Augsburger and he preceded her in death on June 29, 1983.
Several family-oriented programs are planned this month at BFR Sports and Fitness.
BFR will open the indoor track for the entire community in an effort to help break a Guinness Book Record for the number of individuals completing a 100-meter dash in a 24-hour-period.
National Geographic Magazine for Kids has issued a “Run for the Planet” challenge to communities across the United States to break this record between noon on Friday, Oct. 26, and noon on Saturday, Oct. 27.
