Bluffton University kicker Austin Sweeney (Adrian, Mich./Whitmer) has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Football Player of the Week on special teams for the week ending Oct. 23.
"i>>?"i>>?The sophomore opened the game's scoring with a 22-yard field goal in the first quarter and connected on all four of his extra point attempts as the Beavers handed Rose-Hulman a 31-13 loss at Salzman Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 22. Sweeney also drilled six kickoffs for 305 yards in the Beavers' fourth straight win.
The Social Work Club at Bluffton University is collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the West Ohio Food Bank.
The club hopes to collect 500 items in its "Trick-or-Canning" drive. Donations may be left in boxes placed at Marbeck Center on campus and at Community Market and Common Grounds in Bluffton. The drive continues through next Monday, October 31, Trick-or-Treat night in Bluffton, when club members will also visit homes in the community to collect items.
The Bluffton Icon welcomes S&K Mower, 9280 N. Dixie Highway, Bluffton, as its newest advertiser.
Steve Swank, owner, invites Icon viewers to visit the shop for a snowblower pre-season sale and fall clearance on lawn mowers, going on now. S&K's phone number is 419-358-7638.
S & K hours are:
Monday -Friday: 7:30-5:30
Closed on Saturday:
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The Bluffton Lions Foundation officials presented a program recognizing Charity Corvette Raffle event volunteers, shared results of the 2011 raffle and planning information about the 2012 event on Oct. 18.
The back drop for the picture is the actual sponsor banner displayed over the top of the Corvette. The sponsors are Tom Ahl Family of Dealerships, Arby's Restaurants, Colonial Surface Solutions, Don Snyder Excavating Unlimited, Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bud's Chevrolet-Corvette, Ken Lugibihl Auto & Truck Center and Masterpiece Signs & Graphics.
Thirteen members of the Bluffton Lions Club collected trash along County Road 313 and State Route 235 on Oct. 22.
Andy Armstrong, chair of the environmental services committee said the club does the highway trash collection service project twice year in the fall and spring.
Lions participants are, from left, Dick Ramseyer, Gene Long, Fred Rodabaugh, Tom Edwards, Tim Closson, Willis Sommer, Dale Metzger, Ron Lora, Lowell Hostetler, Morris Groman, Jan Emmert, Stan Clemens and Andy Armstrong.
Bluffton University's fall play is getting its full-fledged premiere on the Ramseyer Auditorium stage.
"The Castle of Otranto," adapted by John Minigan several years ago from a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, has been scaled back for presentations as a staged reading and as a workshop production at the Orlando (Fla.) PlayFest. But it will be produced in full form for the first time Nov. 3-6 at Bluffton.
Darin Kerr, visiting instructor of theatre this fall, is directing the show, set for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3-5 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the College Hall auditorium.
James Grandey, head baseball coach at Bluffton University, is among this year's inductees into the Muskingum University Athletic Hall of Fame. He and three others will be inducted on Saturday, Oct. 22.
Grandey played baseball and football at Muskingum, where he graduated in 1999 with the William G. Moore Outstanding Senior Male Athlete Award. He had also been Muskingum's top freshman male athlete and, as a senior, was the university's nominee for the Clyde Lamb Award as outstanding male athlete in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).
Bluffton University's Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band will take center stage Sunday, Oct. 30, for the university's annual Fall Instrumental Concert, at 2:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public; an offering will be taken for music scholarships.
The Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music, will present seven numbers, including swing-era classics "In The Mood" by Joe Garland-with an arrangement by Paul Lavender-and "Take the 'A' Train" by Billy Strayhorn.
"Sculpture Works by Greg Mueller," an exhibition in Bluffton University's Sauder Visual Arts Center, will open Sunday, Oct. 30, with a reception from 2-4 p.m. in the center's Grace Albrecht Gallery.
Free and open to the public, the exhibition includes two-dimensional wall prints documenting public art projects, as well as pedestal and floor pieces, and a larger exterior work installed near the center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 20.
Dr. Norman Wirzba of Duke Divinity School will answer the question "Sabbath Keeping: A Matter of Life and Death?" at a Bluffton University Forum on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
Wirzba is a research professor, both of theology, ecology and rural life at Duke Divinity School and at Duke University's Nicholas School for the Environment. He holds master's and doctoral degrees from Loyola University Chicago, plus a master's degree in religion from Yale Divinity School.
