No matter how fast James Harder, Bluffton University president, pedals, he doesn't seem to make any progress - or does he? Harder talks with Randy Keeler during a campus biking fund-raiser. Funds raised assist students heading to Chicago in a volunteer project during spring break. Click for details.
Join Bluffton Public Library's book discussion group as it follows Enaiatollah Akbari's remarkable five year search for asylum. In the Sea there are Crocodiles, by Fabio Geda, is a true account of Enaiatollah's dangerous escape from Afghanistan and is Bluffton Public Library's next book discussion title.
The discussion will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, at Common Grounds Coffeehouse & Caf'e in Bluffton.
Randy Keeler, Bluffton University faculty member, bikes for a good cause. The stationary bike in the Marbeck Center kiva is part of a fund-raising project for Bluffton University students headed to Chicago for some voluntary service projects during spring break.
Campus students, faculty and staff sign up to ride the bike to urge others to donate to the cause.
Donna Jean Crawford Nusbaum, 55 of Findlay, died at 8:20 a.m. Feb. 16, 2012, at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. She was born Aug. 8, 1956 in Bluffton to Raymond D. and Treva E. Harris Crawford. She married Dwight Nusbaum and he survives in Findlay.
She worked at Pizza Hut, Findlay. She was a member of Mt. Cory United Methodist Church. She was a 1976 graduate of Cory-Rawson High School.
There's a new twist to this year's Lion's Club Foundation-Senior Citizens pancake and sausage benefit. This year's benefit offers several door prizes to persons who attend tickets.
The 30th annual benefit is from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 17, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St. Tickets are $6.50 for adults and youth through age 5 are free when accompanied by an adult.
Danielle Diller, a Bluffton High School junior and member of the Bluffton Public Library Teen Advisory Group, places books in the Library's TAG book sale going on this week. More than 1,000 "slightly or very loved" children's and teen books are available by donation during regular library hours. Click for more details.
Bluffton in the 1950s. Were you there? Tell us about it. Or, tell us who to talk with about it.
The second "Bluffton: A Good Place To Miss" collection of stories is coming together this winter. Its focus is the years when men's ties were as wide as white wall tires: Jan. 1, 1950, to Dec. 31, 1959, to be specific.
