Two Bluffton University students are exploring possible future careers this summer with the help of $1,500 Discovery Grants awarded through the university.
Nnenna Onwukeme, a Bluffton junior majoring in business, is volunteering as a business and teacher's assistant at the new De Padua Learning Center in her home city of Jos, Nigeria. She is looking to learn the ins and outs of running a business, including start-up and daily management.
Lifelong Bluffton resident Vera Burkholder is the June resident of the month at Richland Manor.
She graduated from Bluffton High School and studied to be a teacher at Bluffton College. After graduating she taught 19 years as a first grade teacher at Allen East. She is a lifelong member of the Bluffton Missionary Church.
June worship service leaders at Mennonite Memorial Home were recently announced. Here's the schedule of services:
Sunday, June 3 - Chaplain Bill Herr
Sunday, June 10 - Renee Caskie
Sunday, June 17 - Elizabeth McDowell
Sunday, June 24 - Chaplain Bill Herr
Sunday services are at 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday, June 5 - Carol Clements, St. John's UCC
Tuesday, June 12 - Matthew Zuehlke, Bluffton Presbyterian
Tuesday, June 19 - Steve Yoder, First Mennonite
Tuesday, June 26 - Sister Carol Inkrott, St. Mary's Catholic
Bluffton Lions present the 45th Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-In, Friday, June 15.
The event takes place in downtown Bluffton from 2 to 8 p.m. Jeff Houston, 1950s DJ will play music from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The Flag City Cloggers will perform from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the Night Jazz Swing Band will perform on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn from 6 to 8 p.m.
Several Bluffton downtown businesses will hold sidewalk sales all afternoon.
A registration form for car owners is an attachment to this story.
