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Bluffton University football team joins with Samaritan's Feet

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 4, 2016 - 4:52pm

The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference partnered with Samaritan’s Feet International for the third consecutive year during the 2015 football season and held a shoe distribution at Holy Cross School in Indianapolis Wednesday morning.

Members of the All-HCAC football team and coaching staffs were present as over 200 children received a brand new pair of shoes due to their fundraising efforts during the season.

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Ada's Gallery for the Arts - it's worth a trip to Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 4, 2016 - 11:35am

Gallery for the Arts, 115 S. Main St., Ada, is a new Bluffton Icon advertiser. The gallery opened in 2015. Here is a summary of the feature story posted in the Ada Icon when the gallery opened.

“I set the stage. The artists are the performers.”

That’s the way Ruth Roider describes her vision for Gallery for the Arts, which opened at 115 S. Main St., Ada. The gallery serves two purposes: as a place for local artists to display and sell their creations and as Roider’s own working art studio.

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Ann-Marie McDermott to play in Yoder Recital hall

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on February 4, 2016 - 12:52am

Tickets are available for the third concert in the 2015-16 Bluffton University Artist Series for pianist Ann-Marie McDermott at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, in Yoder Recital Hall.

McDermott has played concertos, recitals and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She is described as, “one of our great under-the-radar pianists,” in a career that spans more than 25 years.

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