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Bluffton chamber's "brainstorm session" provides ideas for community's improvement

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2014 - 5:28pm

Place 60 Bluffton residents in a room, provide them with a free breakfast, divide them into seven tables, designate one person to take notes, then ask four questions, with six minutes to address each question.

Using this format, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce held a brainstorming session on how to improve the community. The discussion included lots of ideas (see responses below).

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Mennonite poet to give reading in Musselman Reading Room

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2014 - 5:23pm

Award-winning Mennonite poet Jean Janzen will return to Bluffton to read from her work at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Musselman Library Reading Room. The event is free and open to the public.

Janzen’s books include “Paper House,” “Piano in the Vineyard,” “Tasting the Dust” and “Snake in the Parsonage”—all poems—as well as “Entering the Wild: Essays on Faith and Writing.” Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Christian Century, Image, and many other magazines and anthologies.

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Church moderator to tell her immigration story in Feb. 4 forum

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2014 - 5:22pm

Dr. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, moderator of Mennonite Church USA, will share “Mi Camino, Nuestra Historia (My Road, Our History)” in a Bluffton University forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Founders Hall.

Albrecht, also director of field education at Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary, will relate her childhood journey from her native Puerto Rico to the United States. Like other Latino/Latina immigrants, she experienced rejection, oppression and pressures to assimilate in the U.S.

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Phil Hugo, Lima photographer, to exhibit ‘LandEscapes’ at Sauder

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2014 - 5:20pm

New digital prints by Lima, Ohio-based photographer Phil Hugo will be on display in “LandEscapes: How and Where,” an exhibition opening Sunday, Feb. 2, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University’s Sauder Visual Arts Center.

The show, featuring color photos that explore where and how people escape, is free and open to the public through Feb. 28. It will kick off with a reception from 1-3 p.m. Feb. 2. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

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Stephen Harnish discusses China trip on Friday

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2014 - 5:19pm

Dr. Stephen Harnish, a professor and chair of mathematics at Bluffton University, will reflect Friday (Jan. 31) on his spring 2013 efforts to strengthen Bluffton’s partnership with China West Normal University.

Harnish will present “Tones, Trains and Toasts: Forging New Partnerships and Scientific Research in Sichuan Province” at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall. The colloquium is free and open to the public.

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New year brings changes to childhood immunization services

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2014 - 2:54pm

Allen County Public Health is changing their childhood immunization process so they can bill private insurance for vaccines.  Effective on January 1, 2014, if a child has any form of health insurance, they are no longer eligible for state-funded vaccines. In the past, health departments could use vaccine provided by the state for clients with private insurance if their insurance had high deductibles or co-payments or did not cover vaccinations. 

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