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Bluffton First United Methodist baked spaghetti dinner Feb. 18

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on January 25, 2015 - 4:46pm

First United Methodist Church, Bluffton, will hold a baked spaghetti dinner to benefit children and youth ministries from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18 in the fellowship hall.Youth Ministries. Tickets are $7 each. Contact 419-358-8921; carry-out and delivery are available.

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Worship
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Pep talk

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2015 - 4:36pm

Rachel Diller, Bluffton High School girls' junior varsity basketball coach, offers some last-minute time-out advice during Saturday's game with Pandora-Gilboa. Bluffton JV's won.

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Mennonite historian subject of peace lecture

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on January 25, 2015 - 4:05pm

This year’s C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture at Bluffton University will address the 20th-century Mennonite historian for whom it is named.

Dr. Perry Bush, a professor of history at Bluffton, will examine “The Professor as Peacemaker: C. Henry Smith and the Mennonite Intellectual Tradition, 1920-1948” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Founders Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.

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Bluffton University
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2015 looks like an exciting year for Bluffton - chamber has several new programs planned

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2015 - 4:03pm

This proves to be an exciting year for the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce as the chamber has several ambitious plans to promote the community, according to Fred Steiner, chamber CEO.

Among those include:
• launching a signage program,
• expanding social media to promote the community, and
• developing ways to make Bluffton a destination for visitors.

These three programs emerged from last winter’s chamber brainstorming session when the chamber board asked members for ideas on improving Bluffton.

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Regional news
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Sculpture exhibit opens Feb. 2 at Sauder Visual Arts

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on January 25, 2015 - 4:03pm

“At the Mercy of the Muse,” an exhibition of sculptures by Fremont, Ohio, native Dan Chudzinski, will open Monday, Feb. 2, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University’s Sauder Visual Arts Center.

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Bluffton University
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Climate change and "green" chemistry topic of colloquium

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on January 25, 2015 - 4:02pm

Dr. Daniel Berger, a professor of chemistry at Bluffton University, will discuss climate change and “green” chemistry in a Bluffton colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

His presentation, titled “Burning 350 Gallons of Gas to Learn More about Global Warming,” is free and open to the public.

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Bluffton University
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