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Lions Way Trailhead Park dedicated Sept. 16 - includes picnic shelter and lots more

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2015 - 5:52pm

Lions Way Trailhead Park will be dedicated at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, according to Richard Ramseyer, chair of the Bluffton Pathway Board and president of the Bluffton Lions Foundation.

The event takes place at the trailhead picnic shelter near Comfort Inn on Commerce Lane and will include a ribbon cutting.

The Trailhead park project involves construction of a picnic shelter with concrete pad and wheel chair assessable ramp, picnic tables, identification signs, bike stand on concrete pad, drinking fountain, plantings and landscaping.

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Opening university convocation: Pay attention to what’s important

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2015 - 5:44pm

The advice that college freshmen receive is always obvious or bogus, and given by people relating what they should have done when they were 18 or 19.

That’s what first-year Bluffton University students heard Sept. 1 from poet and novelist Marge Piercy—who went on to offer a few suggestions anyway at the university’s annual opening convocation.

“Keep your eyes on what’s happening because it can land on your head,” Piercy recommended, urging her largely student audience to pay attention to politics because of its pervasiveness in life.

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Kindergarten - all day

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2015 - 5:39pm

Meet members of the Bluffton High School class of 2027-28. The first day of Kindergarten was Sept. 2. This year marks a major change in Kindergarten at Bluffton. This is the first class to participate in all-day Kindergarten. This photo is from Amy Butte's class, as she reads students a story.

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ILR offers trail biking course

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on September 2, 2015 - 5:06pm

Bluffton University’s Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is offering a trail biking class this fall for both interested retirees and the semi-retired.

Local bicyclists Paul and Mary Fleck will lead the class, whose first meeting and ride will begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 16 in the Sommer Center parking lot on campus. Cost is $50.

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Chamber ensemble opens Artist Series

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on September 2, 2015 - 5:05pm

Tickets are still available for the opening performance in the 2015-16 Bluffton University Artist Series, by the baroque chamber ensemble Apollo’s Fire, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in Yoder Recital Hall.

Founded in 1992, Apollo’s Fire is dedicated to reviving the true spirit of baroque performances, with the emotional impact the music was intended to convey. The group is based in Cleveland and plays to sold-out houses around the world.

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Flipped math course topic of talk

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on September 2, 2015 - 5:04pm

Dr. Donald Hooley, a professor of mathematics at Bluffton University, will discuss "An Achievement Evaluation of a Flipped Calculus Course” at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall.

The first campus colloquium of the academic year, the presentation is free and open to the public.

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