Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs welcomes Jeff Compton, founder of Ottawa-based FluentPoint, as its new non-resident affiliate. Compton's company improves workplace learning through instructional design, course production and training distribution services, primarily e-learning courses.
FluentPoint also helps businesses enhance their PowerPoint presentations and marketing materials.
Pandora's Riley Creek Festival is Friday and Saturday, Aug. 12-13. Events on Friday include a car show, outdoor movie, food and carnival games.
Saturday's events include a 10 a.m. parade, breakfast and lunch, chicken barbecue, health fair, performers, punt, pass and kick contest for youth, a 3 p.m. auction an activities for children.
PHOTO ID: front from left: Julia Szabo, Jayne McGarrity; back: Jeremy Szabo, Linda Sycks
The double duet, "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn" (You true God and son of David), from Bach's Cantata 23 will be performed at the Bluffton Presbyterian Church Sunday, Aug. 14 at the 10:15 worship service.
The cantata is one of two pieces which Bach submitted for an audition to become cantor for St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig in 1723. The double duet consists of two oboe parts played along with two treble voices, plus a continuo.
The annual Beaverdam-Richland Fire Department and EMS fall festival is Saturday, Aug. 13, in downtown Beaverdam. The event is a fund-raiser for the department.
Activities get underway at 4 p.m. This year's festival includes a live band, lots of homemade food and ice cream.
Raffle tickets are available from fire and EMS members for several prizes given away during the evening. This year's grand prizes include:
oSimplicity snowblower
oFlat screen TV
oOne-quarter side of beef
oPlus many more prizes
Bluffton council covered lots of ground in Monday's brief 35-minute council session. Water lines, sewer lines, annexation, golf carts and ash trees were among topics discussed.
Water lines
Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, reported that he met with Choice One Engineering on Aug. 4. The meeting reviewed the preliminary layout plans for the Grove, Lawn and Jackson Street waterline replacement project.
In preparation for the 2011-12 school year, parents and students are encouraged to attend Apollo Career Center's Parent-Student Orientation, Thursday, Aug. 25, between 1-4 p.m. or 5:30-8 p.m.
Parents and students may visit labs, meet with teachers, pay for fees, books and tools, and tour the building.
Apollo will have staggered start dates again this year. First day of school for juniors is Monday, Aug. 29, and first day for seniors is Tuesday, Aug. 30. For more information call 419.998.2908.
The 2011-12 Apollo calendar is an attachment to this story.
Concerning the world's longest garage sale that took place this past weekend. (Lincoln Highway garage sale). Here's an interesting note from Gary Crafis of Beaverdam, reporting on the event:
Thanks again for listing our garage sale on the icon this past weekend. The past two years we have put up a map and asked the garage- salers where they live, and highlighted their town.
