The February calendar from Maple Crest Senior Living community is now available to Icon viewers. Open the attachment at the bottom of this story to view the calendar.
The fourth week of BFR's Keeping Active Wellness Campaign includeS more free walking days, free fitness classes and recreation options and a special event for Healthy Hearts, according to Carole Enneking, director.
Here's the schedule:
Thursday, Feb. 2 will feature a free session of the Strength & Flexibility exercise class at 10 am. Saturday, Feb. 4 will feature a free session of Zumba Dance Fitness class at 9 am.
The Water Exercise classes held on Monday, Feb. 6 (9:30 am and 6 pm) will be offered without any charge.
The location: Harmon Field. The event: Bluffton College homecoming. The year: 1956 or 1957. Barbara Diller Garriott (center), a Bluffton High School grad, now of San Diego Calif., was homecoming queen. Her father, Paul Diller, took this color slide photo. Can Icon viewers name the two attendants?
Check the photo below for a graduation photo of Barbara, also taken by her father.
The Bluffton Relay for Life February meeting is planned on Thursday, Feb. 2, in the third floor of the town hall, according to Adam Blevins of the American Cancer Society.
The Relay committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. (new time). Teams will meet at 7 p.m.
Bluffton's GROB Systems, Inc., today announce that it has been awarded $7.9 million in funding from the State of Ohio for an upcoming expansion.
GROB Systems, a builder of machine tool equipment, is a subsidiary of GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG located in Mindelheim, Germany.
GROB engineers and manufactures custom-made equipment for high volume production for automotive, motorcycle, tractor and truck manufacturers. GROB produces such equipment as machining centers, assembly lines, robots and automation.
Dr. Shelly Weaverdyck, director of the Alzheimer's Education and Research Program at Eastern Michigan University, will discuss dementia in a Bluffton University Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in Yoder Recital Hall.
"When the Brain Goes Awry: Effects of Brain Quirks and Disorders on Thinking and Doing" is the title of the Bluffton alumna's presentation, which is free and open to the public.
Black and white photography by American and international artists will be showcased in "Gray Space: Windows from the Ordinary into the Extraordinary," an exhibition opening Sunday, Feb. 5, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University's Sauder Visual Arts Center.
Continuing through March 2, the exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
