Bluffton residents are reminded about the upcoming 5K Run/Walk that will take place Labor Day Weekend. On Saturday, Sept. 3, between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., runners and walkers will hit the streets to compete as well as raise funds for BFR Sports & Fitness.
Village residents are encouraged to support the racers by watching from the sidewalks. Bluffton Police will lead the racers and mark intersections where runners will cross traffic.
Please watch out for the volunteers who will direct participants and for
the racers and walkers at the end of the pack.
An exhibition by husband and wife artists Darvin and Martha Yoder of Parnell, Iowa, opens Aug. 26 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University's Sauder Visual Arts Center.
Darvin Yoder, an art teacher at Iowa Mennonite School in Kalona for 32 years, is presenting "Art You Can Touch," an interactive collection of pedestal- and wall-mounted sculpture.
Deogratias "Deo" Niyizonkiza, who escaped genocide in Burundi and later returned to found a health care organization there, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Aug. 30, as Bluffton University welcomes the class of 2015 to campus at its annual opening convocation.
With faculty in regalia looking on, about 280 new first-year and transfer students will be introduced during the ceremony, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in Founders Hall.
The Bluffton High School girls tennis team scored a 5-0 whitewash of Kenton Thursday afternoon as all victories were in straight sets.
Ashlin Gable, Emily Sprague and Kristi Geiser were singles winners, while Shaye Liddick and Rachel Sehlhorst and Bronwyn Greer and Dynasty Martin swept the doubles matches.
Sept. 29 Artist Series: The Four Freshmen, 7:30 p.m., Yoder Recital Hall. Order tickets online at http://tickets.bluffton.edu, or by contacting the box office at 419-358-3239 or [email protected].
Sept. 23 Colloquium: "On Becoming Human: Jean Vanier, Carl Rogers and James Alison on a Noncompetitive Theological Anthropology," by Dr. Alex Sider, assistant professor of religion, 4 p.m., Stutzman Lecture Hall, Centennial Hall
Sept. 16 Colloquium: "Proclaiming and Actualizing Christ's Victory over the Powers: A Rhetorical Analysis of John Howard Yoder's Theory of 'Middle Axioms,'" by Dr. Zachary Walton, assistant professor of communication, 4 p.m., Stutzman Lecture Hall, Centennial Hall
