From left: J.J. "Sunfish" Garmatter, Austen "Feared Bear" Herron, Nick "Little Deer" Luke, Casey "Little Squirrel" McGuire, Clay "Whispering Blue Jay" Burkholder, Misha "River Trout" Groman and Christian "Red Fox" Groman.
The Bluffton Boy Scouts, under the direction of Assistant Scoutmaster Gary Wetherill, had made authentic costumes and learned about the Eastern Woodlands Indians which lived in our area from the mid-1700s through early 1800s.
Bluffton University will host the Damascus Road Anti-Racism Analysis, a three-day training session, from Friday-Sunday, Nov. 4-6. Hours are 5-9 p.m. Nov. 4 and 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5 and 6, all in the Kreider Room in Marbeck Center.
Damascus Road is an Anabaptist anti-racism training and skill development program. The name refers to the transformation process that Saul experienced on the road to Damascus in the New Testament book of Acts.
Bernard Bushardt, a licensed independent chemical dependency counselor, will discuss "Substance Abuse and Dependency: Causes, Detection, Cost and Treatment" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at Bluffton University. Free and open to the public, the forum will be held in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Bushardt is an alcohol and drug counselor at Clearview Services in Findlay, Ohio. He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master's degree in counselor education from Canisius College in Buffalo.
Group 1 Crew, a Dove Award-winning hip-hop trio, will headline a free concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, in Bluffton University's Founders Hall. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
Open to the public, the concert is part of the band's Outta Space Love Tour, also featuring fellow Christian artists Rachael Lampa, Rapture Ruckus and Shonlock.
From poverty and immigration to service and language, cross-cultural experiences from last spring left Bluffton University students with eye-opening memories.
Recounting some of them at two campus forums on Sept. 27 were nearly 20 of the 146 Bluffton students whose experiences took them in May and June either to Bolivia, Botswana, Chicago, China, France, Paraguay, San Antonio or Trinidad.
The group that went to San Antonio, and south to the Mexican border, had a "life-changing" experience, said Chalsi Eastman, a senior from Norwalk, Ohio.
Dr. Earl Lehman's recent death drew our attention to this photo. It is an early 1950s-era Bluffton High School operetta. Lehman, in the front center, was the director.
We see many familar faces here. For example: Dick Boehr on drums, Ada May Oyer on bass, Wilma Jean Jorg on piano, and, yes, Sam Diller on the stage.
This is a Leland Gerber photo, taken obviously on a ladder, in the old BHS gym.
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Bluffton Family Recreation will hold a community Halloween party (non-scary) from 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 23, according to Carole Enneking, BFR director.
The event includes games, crafts and snacks.
"Bring your family and friends to the free non-scary event," she said. "Costume judging takes place at 3 p.m. Prizes will be offered.
