The McDonald's Classic left Bluffton flat on Sunday, Jan. 2, as host Anderson University pummeled the Beavers 81-52 in the opening game of 2022, snapping their four-game winning streak in the process. Bluffton fell to 6-5 overall and 1-3 in the Heartland Conference, while the Ravens moved to 5-6 and 2-2 in the HCAC.
With Spring 2022 youth soccer registration underway, it is also a good time for Bluffton Soccer Club supporters to consider soccer referee training. There are new grassroots soccer referee courses for the region to help address a shortage of referees.
Who can be a referee? To complete the GR First Time Course, referee candidates must be 13 years or older. Admission criteria:
The Bluffton University men's basketball team kept it close throughout the first half, but pre-season HCAC favorite Anderson University was too much for the Beavers on January 1, 2022. AU moved to 8-3 and 3-1 in the Heartland Conference with its 79-57 victory over a Bluffton team (4-7, 0-4 HCAC) that had won twice in the previous 68 hours.
Have you ever wondered what's up--and down--at the Et Cetera Shop, 327 N. Main?
Manager Chrissy Lugibihl takes viewers on a video tour of the second floor and basement of the former glove factory building in the following Instagram video. She discusses what work was done to convert the building into retail space.
Watching the removal of one of Bluffton's towering, shade giving trees on South Main, neighbors Jeanette Reineke and Pam Weisenbarger were reminded of a poem they both knew by heart, "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer.
Captured here by Icon photographer Jamie Nygaard, they recited the poem for her.
A huge tree was removed from the treelawn in front of the south Main Street home of Phil and Pam Weisenbarger. Its age (approximately 100 years) and girth can be appreciated in this vertical view.
