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Wellness fair

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2015 - 9:40pm

Chris Moser (right), director of development at Bluffton University, reviews an evaluation of his diet with Melinda Frederick, a 2014 Bluffton graduate and now a dietetics intern at the university, during a Wellness Fair in the Sommer Center on campus March 19. Hosted by the students in the dietetics internship program, the event featured several optional health screenings, plus informational sessions on such topics as nutrition for the elderly, massage therapy and healing, biking, Zumba, and diabetes.

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Water Resource Plan details potential threats to Ada's drinking water

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2015 - 9:21pm

The following story was posted in Ada Icon in the interest of Bluffton viewers.

By Amy Eddings of Ada Icon
The latest phase of Ada's Water Resource Plan has identified scores of potential sources of contamination to the village's drinking water, including large-scale animal farms, crude oil pipelines and privately-owned injection wells.

Village Administrator Jim Meyer provided updates on the nine-year-old project for Ada’s Community Improvement Corporation during their meeting last Wednesday at Ohio Northern University.

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Shirley Benham was an Ada High School graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 22, 2015 - 8:54pm

Shirley E. Benham, 78, of Beaverdam died at 7:25 a.m. March 22, 2015 at her residence. 

Shirley was born June 28, 1936, in Orange Township, Hancock County to the late John and Cora Balmer Marquart.  On Nov. 7, 1957 she married Billy A. Benham and he preceded her in death on Jan. 19, 2009. 

She was a homemaker and had worked as an executive secretary at the A.J. Heinz  Company, Bowling Green.  She was a 1954 graduate of Ada High School.  

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Obituaries
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California professor to discuss love stories, gender

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on March 22, 2015 - 3:13pm

Dr. Cheri Larsen Hoeckley, professor of English and co-coordinator of gender studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., will explore “Men, Women, and the Stories We Tell About ‘Us’” in Bluffton University’s annual Women’s Studies Forum on March 31. Free and open to the public, her talk will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.

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Bluffton University
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Spring instrumental concert March 29 at university

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on March 22, 2015 - 3:11pm

Three wind chamber ensembles will join the Bluffton University Concert Band to present a spring instrumental concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 29, in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, conducts the Concert Band and coaches a brass quintet, while Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music, directs a flute ensemble and coaches a saxophone quartet.

Brittney Ries, a junior from Freeman, S.D., and a Concert Band member, will conduct the band’s performance of “The King of Love My Shepherd Is.”

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Bluffton University
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Bluffton softball splits pair at Alma

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 21, 2015 - 11:57pm

March 21, 2015 Game 1 Stats I Game 2 Stats ALMA, Mich. - The Bluffton University softball team split a pair of two-run games at Alma on Saturday, March 21, 2015. The Beavers took game one by a 3-1 count before the home Scots returned the favor, 4-2, in the nightcap. Bluffton stands 9-8, while Alma moved to 9-9 on the season. It marked the first Bluffton victory against Alma since a 1-0 road shutout in 2009 and only the third win ever over the Scots.

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Bluffton University
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