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Want to ride in an open-air 1930s era Stearman biplane? It's one of several silent auction items at BCE's Nov. 9 event

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 3, 2013 - 1:46pm

If you ever wanted to ride in an open-air 1930s-era Stearman biplane, Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs (BCE) offers you that opportunity. The ride, provided by Jeff Koehler, is among 25 unusual silent auction items up for grabs at BCE’s “Come Fly with the BCE” fundraiser.

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Being Muslim in Post 9/11 America - Nov. 5 forum

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:09pm

Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, will address “Being Muslim in Post 9/11 America” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Bluffton University’s Founders Hall. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Shearson will discuss her conversion from Catholicism to Islam and the challenging national climate faced by American Muslims.

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Bluffton University
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University Forum to mark Spiritual Life Week on campus

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:05pm

“Proving God’s Will” will be Justin Romine’s topic for a Nov. 12 forum during Spiritual Life Week at Bluffton University. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.

Romine, from Keystone, S.D., is summer internship director for the Keystone Project, a discipleship-training and global missions network. His Bluffton talk will examine the conflict between being conformed to the world and being transformed by the renewing of the mind, as developed in Romans 12:1-2.

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Opening a Jewish German’s diary during Third Reich - Bluffton University colloquium

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:04pm

Dr. Martina Cucchiara, an assistant professor of history at Bluffton University, will explore the diary of a Jewish German in Nazi Germany during a campus colloquium Nov. 8.

Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall will be the site of the 4 p.m. presentation, which is titled “‘I am suffocating on the evil that engulfs me’: The Diary of Erna Becker-Kohen, 1937-1963.” The event is free and open to the public.

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Here's where Bluffton EMS went in October

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:03pm

Jan Basinger, Bluffton EMS chief, provided The Icon with the October EMS runs.

 

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Police/Fire/EMS
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Ada public auction Nov. 7

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 11:29am

A public auction takes place at 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 7, at 509 N. Edwards St., Ada. The complete listing of auction items are in an attachment at the bottom of this story; and also are listed on The Icon classified page under Notices.

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