Longtime Bluffton resident and community support Jean Muller will be recognized as the 2009 Bluffton Lions Club citizen of the year.
The presentation will be made in a dinner at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 16, in the third floor of the town hall. Tickets are $13 each. Reservations are required and may be made by contacting Daryl Shields at 419-358-0810 by March 10.
Muller served for 25 years on the Bluffton Stone Co. board of directors. He is a past member of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Bluffton Lions Club.
Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR), sponsored by Bluffton University and the Elderhostel Institute Network is offering nine courses for the spring term beginning Monday, March 22, through Thursday, April 29. The $80 cost allows participants to join all of the courses offered and ILR activities. Individual courses are $25 each per person.
Bluffton University assistant professor of education, Dr. Paul Neufeld Weaver, will speak at Forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 16, in Founders Hall. His presentation will be titled "Sojourners and Borders: Transforming the Immigration Debate."
As Civic Engagement Scholar, Dr. Neufeld Weaver's presentation will discuss the issues facing society throughout the world because of immigration. He will discuss how all of us at one point or another are "Sojourners," and while it is natural to put down roots it is dangerous to exclude people just because they come from another place.
How many plates have you seen that can be read upside down? Upside down, this on could read L MEW. We spotted this one on the Bluffton University campus. It's a Hancock County plate.
Bluffton University will host the Golden Dragon Acrobats at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 18, in Founders Hall.
The performance is part of the 2009-10 Bluffton University Artist Series. Bluffton will offer a Family Fun Pack of tickets priced at $75 for two adults and up to three children ages 6-18. Children under the age of 5 are free. Single adult general admission tickets are $24 and $18 for seniors.
Contact the box office at [email protected] or 419-358-3239 for further ticket information.
Phil Sugden, assistant professor of art, will present "Pages from the Manual on Deconstructing God" at Friday Colloquium at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 19, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. Colloquium is free and open to the public.
The inspiration for Sugden's art exhibit came from reading, formal meditation and his many travels to Tibet and the Himalayas. Sugden also drew inspiration from his time spent in Tibetan monasteries.
