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Ohio Judo Championships held in Bluffton March 29

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 9, 2014 - 9:13pm

Bluffton is host to the 2014 Ohio Judo Championships held Saturday, March 29, at BFR Sports and Fitness, Snider Road.

Mark Hunter of Bluffton, president of Ohio Judo, Inc., is the tournament director. The tournament is sponsored by Ameri-Kan Judo and the Chu-To-Bu Judo. Ameri-Kan Judo Club has facilities in Lima, Findlay and Hilliard.

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Activate Allen County featured Friday chamber program; social media workshop follows breakfast

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 9, 2014 - 4:05pm

Activate Allen County is coming to Bluffton on Friday.

The public health initiative, committed to reducing obesity and smoking in Lima and Allen County by promoting healthy eating, active living and a tobacco free lifestyle, is the featured program at Friday's Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

The free event is open to the public and takes place in the Bluffton town hall.

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She makes it look so easy

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 9, 2014 - 3:41pm

She makes it look so easy, especially when you watch the video. The Icon found Cara Young, Bluffton fifth grader, jumping rope at a fairly good clip, during a recent physical education at the elementary school. Click for the video.

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Oregon pastor is Spiritual Life Week speaker

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 8, 2014 - 11:58am

Meghan Good, pastor of Albany (Ore.) Mennonite Church, will address the biblical “Runaway Bride” in Bluffton University’s Spiritual Life Week forum on Tuesday, March 18. Beginning at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall, her presentation is free and open to the public.

The week’s activities will focus on three Ds—dwell, desire and delight—from Psalm 37. Discussing desire in the forum, Good will draw from the book of Hosea and the story, she notes, of “a runaway bride pursued by a relentlessly passionate Groom.”

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Camerata Singers ‘Home’ concert March 16

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 8, 2014 - 11:56am

Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers, back from a spring-break tour in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, will reprise the tour program, “Peace, Justice & Love,” in the annual Camerata Home Concert on Sunday, March 16. The concert, beginning at 2:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall, is free and open to the public.

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Talk to have phonics focus in Stutzman Lecture Hall

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 8, 2014 - 11:52am

Dr. Amy Mullins, an assistant professor of education at Bluffton University, will focus on phonics in a Bluffton University colloquium at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 14, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. Her talk is free and open to the public.

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