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The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association will sponsor this event to be held on Sunday, July 29, at 9 a.m. The theme is "For the Beauty of the Earth" and the service will continue the VBS theme from the previous week.

This year, there will be only one offering taken, and that will be for the community food pantry.

The usual snack of grapes and muffins will be offered. Worshippers are invited to bring some if you are able. All extra grapes and muffins will be donated to Our Daily Bread Food Pantry of Lima. Also, be sure to bring your lawn chair.

Bluffton resident Dr. J.D. Yoder, professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio Northern University, along with Jeffery West, BSME'12, Dr. Eric Baumgartner, dean of the College of Engineering, and Drs. Mathias Perrollaz, Michael Seelinger, and Matthew Robinson of the University of Notre Dame, are authors of the paper titled "Experiments comparing precision of stereo-vision approaches for control of an industrial manipulator."

Yoder presented the work at the 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics June 17-21, 2012, at Quebec City, Canada.

Peter Suter of Shannon Theatre announced that "Brave" (PG) will be shown at the theatre from July 6-12.

Show times follow:

2D - Each evening at 7 PM with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30.

3D - Each evening at 9:30 PM with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 4 PM.

Premiering July 13 will be Ice Age - Continental Drift.

It's a weekend of music in Bluffton as Mennofolk comes to town. What is Mennofolk? It's three stages featuring acoustic music over two days, Friday and Saturday, July 6-7, plus some morning events on Sunday, July 8. It features an array of singer songwriters, ranging from American roots music to hymns.

Performances are in Yoder Recital Hall, Gilliom Room in Mosiman Hall and Bob's Place in Marbeck Center on the Bluffton University campus.

To view the complete weekend schedule open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Gone with the wind

Perhaps the largest and oldest Buckeye tree in Bluffton, which shaded College Hall for the better part of a century, was lost in the June 29 severe wind storm. Click for a video and for a photo of the site taken in 1900.

AEP Ohio -- through our rebuilding efforts -- has restored
power to more than a half million customers affected by the catastrophic
storm that moved through the state June 29 and the additional 20,000 who lost power in the July 1 evening storm.

As of 9:30 a.m. today, approximately 516,000 of the customers left without power June 29 now have service.

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