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"Full Sound" chamber group will perform a concert at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2, in the Maple Crest Patio Room. The performance is open to the public with no admission charge.
The chamber group iincludes five classically-trained musicians performing on violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano.
Composers whose music will be performed includes Bach, Weidig and Dobrzynski. In addition, Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag," and John Zundel's hymn "Love Divine," will be performed.

The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce has two extra strands of lighted holiday garland for sale. The garland was purchased last summer. It is identical to the garland on Main Street.
For sale is:
o One 60-foot strand with lights - $459
o One 40-foot strand with lights - $306
Contact Fred Steiner at [email protected] or 419-369-2985 for details.

Pandora's next American Red Cross blood drive is from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Pandora United Methodist Church.
How to Donate Blood

The September Maple Crest calendar is now available for Icon viewers. The calendar is a printer friendly attachment at the bottom of this story.

Classes are in session at Bluffton University. Here's a zoom lens shot looking east on College Avenue through the Snider Circle sculpture.

Tobias Buckell

Living in a time of rapidly increasing change can be intimidating, Tobias Buckell admits.
Moore's Law holds--still accurately, Buckell says--that the speed of computing chips doubles every 18 months, while storage capacity for hard drives doubles every 12 months, according to Kryder's Law.
An iPhone, he notes, has more computing power than NASA did when it sent men to the moon, and an Xbox has the same power as a military-level supercomputer did when he was a college student at Bluffton in the late 1990s.

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