Bluffton University’s Homecoming weekend, Oct. 12-14, will feature the dedication of the newest campus building, the Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education.
The 60,000-square-foot Sommer Center, which will offer enhanced facilities for all students when it opens later this fall, will be dedicated during a short ceremony beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.
Drawings by Joanne Von Sossan, Bluffton alumna, are featured this month in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in the Sauder Visual Arts Center at Bluffton University. An artist reception is from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Saturday, Nov. 10, is the day Bluffton prepares for the Christmas holidays.
The Bluffton Fire Department will hang lighted garland on Main Street businesses on the morning of the 10th. According to Jon Kinn, fire chief, a snow or rain date is the following Saturday, Nov. 17.
The village cultural affairs committee will begin placing Ream holiday pieces on the Presbyterian Church lawn also on the morning of Nov. 10. Terry Mullenhour, chair of the committee, invites all interested groups to assist.
A second Ford Interceptor utility vehicle may join the Bluffton police force. On Oct. 8 Bluffton council okayed a request from Rick Skilliter, Bluffton police chief, to send a "letter of intent" to purchase a 2013 vehicle from Statewide Ford.
By approving the letter of intent the village freezes the price on the vehicle at $32,798. In September the village received its first Interceptor. Click here for a look at that vehicle.
