Robert Brock, mission representative with The Voice of the Martyrs, will speak at 7 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 14, at Ebenezer Mennonite Church.
The Voice of the Martyrs is a non-profit, inter-demoninational Christian organization dedicated to assisting the persecuted church worldwide.
Brock has been with VOM since 1993 and has traveled to more than 35 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. He meets with families of martyrs and delivers aid, relief and spiritual encouragement.
In her book, "Eat, Pray, Love," Elizabeth Gilbert talks about traveling to Italy to experience pleasure, a concept that she finds foreign. During her first few weeks in Rome, she struggles with coming to grips with what "pure pleasure" really is. Gilbert says that "pure pleasure is not my cultural paradigm," explaining that she grew up in a family of hard workers who were not given to idleness.
Libby Frazier, 5, isn't your average bowler. She's the youngest bowler to ever play a serious game at Southgate Lanes. That makes her above average. On the day this photo was taken she bowled two spares in a row and she happily maintains a game average of 19. The kindergartener is the daughter of Todd and Tonya Frazier, Bluffton.
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By Austin Arnold, BGSU Icon intern
If you hear a clunk or feel a knock in your car, what should you do? You might want to start by getting it checked out at Kirtland's Auto Repair Center on the corner of Main and Jefferson.
January registered an extreme in temperatures, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. The high temperature for the month was 50 degrees on Jan. 24. The low was minus 2 on Jan. 3.
January 2010's average daily temperature was 22.9 degrees. The normal average daily January temperature is 23.6 degrees.
Snowfall reached 9.9 inches in January. The average January precipitation is 2.04 inches.
On Friday, Jan. 15, Bluffton University head baseball coach, James Grandey, and student-athlete Cody McPherson, accepted the 2010 Inspiration Award, on behalf of the 2007 baseball team, from Bluffton University president, Dr. James M. Harder at the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 2010 Honors Celebration in Atlanta, Ga.
Provided by Darrell E. Groman, Assistant Scoutmaster
Ten scouts from Bluffton Boy Scout Troop 256 participated at the 50th annual Klondike Derby of the Black Swamp Area Council. This event was held on Saturday, Jan. 23 at B.S.A. Camp Lakota, near Defiance.
Based on the Alaskan gold rush of 1896, the Scouts pulled their six-foot wooden sled packed with their day supplies for the seven-hour race on 3-4 inches of snow.
