Bluffton Public Library is getting spooky this October with two special programs for children. Tuesday, Oct. 19 is Spooky Cartoon Night beginning at 3:30 p.m. Children ages 3-10 will watch a Halloween cartoon and listen to a slightly scary ghost story. Ghostly snacks will be provided to all participants. The cartoon and story are both rated G.
Then, on Oct. 26, children ages 3-14 are invited to get dressed up in their Halloween finery for the library's Trick AND Treat program at 4:30 p.m.
A combined Bluffton High School and Bluffton University homecoming parade set for 6 p.m. tonight creates perhaps the largest small town parade of its type in northwestern Ohio.
Both Bluffton University and Bluffton High School will celebrate its 2010 homecoming on Friday and Saturday. Bluffton University's king and queen will be announced on Saturday afternoon.
Members of the homecoming court have been selected by BHS students. The 2010 king and queen will be announced in a pre-game ceremony Friday on Harmon Field. Members of the court follow:
Richland Manor will host a candlelight memorial service at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23. The service will be held by Pastor Mark Neddeau of Shepherd's Flock Apostolic Church, who is presently Chaplain at the Manor.
This service will memorialize those residents who died away in 2009-2010, while offering families a moment to reflect on their lives and also take the opportunity to heal, re-unite and deal with the many complex emotions death can leave behind.
The Bluffton Icon and Bluffton Hospital have teamed together to share with Icon viewers photos of babies born at Bluffton Hospital. To view babies photos simply click here.
This link connects you to the Bluffton BabyNet page. Photos are available by baby name and date of birth.
Dale Schrag, director of marketing and church relations at Bethel (Kan.) College, will present a conversational Bluffton University Forum on 16th-century Anabaptist leader Pilgrim Marpeck on Tuesday, Oct. 19. Free and open to the public, the forum will begin at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
Schrag's presentation, which entails some impersonation, will provide a "first-person" view of Marpeck's life. He will also draw observations that might be relevant to Christians today in what promises to be much more than a lecture.
Tickets are still available for the next performance in the 2010-11 Bluffton University Artist Series, by Percussion Group Cincinnati at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The three-member group has awakened concert audiences to a wider world of music since 1979, using everything from amplified cactus needles, newspapers and garbage cans to the traditional sounds of drums, cymbals and bells from around the world.
Dr. Mark Suderman, professor of music at Bluffton University, will discuss how to develop better choral tone during a Bluffton Colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Suderman's presentation will center on research he conducted during his spring 2010 sabbatical, when he studied material on choral tone production and warm-up exercises, then consulted with and observed multiple choral conductors.
"Traces of Entropy," an exhibition by Andreas Baumgartner, a 2008 Bluffton University art graduate, is on display through Oct. 31 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton's Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The introduction may go something like that when Dr. J. Denny Weaver, professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton University, meets the new Bluffton mascot named in his honor on Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 9, at the university. The two J. Dennys will get together for the first time at 12:30 p.m. in the picnic tent inside Salzman Stadium.
Weaver, a leading theologian, was a faculty member from 1975-2006 and Bluffton's faculty athletics representative for 22 of those years.
Richland Manor Nursing Home will host Shepherd's Flock Apostolic Pentecostal Church in a Candlelight Memorial Service.
The service will be held on Saturday, OCT 23, at 2:00pm. Pastor Mark Neddeau of Shepherd's Flock will preside over the event.
All Residents, Staff and their families are invited to attend the service and light a candle in memory of a loved one, friend or family member who has passed away in 2009 or 2010.
