BFR Sports and Fitness, 215 Snider Road, will hold a free Fitness and Fun Day, from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 7, according to Carole Enneking, director.
The event includes building tours, family events, indoor soccer scrimmages, a fitness class demonstration, open basketball and tennis and other events.
Playing on a field that more resembled a swamp following a day of rain, the Bluffton University men's soccer team fell to Spalding University, 3-1, on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. The Beavers slipped to 2-6, while Spalding upped its season mark to 3-6.
Lucrecia Guerrero, winner of a national literary award for her 2011 novel, “Tree of Sighs,” will read from her work at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Bluffton University’s Musselman Library.
Her first novel earned Guerrero the 2012 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize for emerging Latino authors. She is also the author of “Chasing Shadows,” a collection of short stories.
BLUFFTON, Ohio—Bluffton University’s mathematics department will host its 11th annual math competition for high school students on Saturday, Nov. 3, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The event is free.
The test, which begins at 9:45 a.m., includes only short-answer questions covering high school math topics through precalculus. Cash prizes will be awarded, and test scores of seniors considering attending Bluffton may be used to award renewable scholarships of up to $1,000 per year. Scholarship awards will be offered by January 2013.
Dr. Donald Hooley, professor of mathematics at Bluffton University, will discuss his fall 2011 sabbatical in India during a campus colloquium on Friday, Oct. 5. Beginning at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall, the presentation is free and open to the public.
The 2012 Bluffton CROP Walk is set to take place on Sunday, Oct. 7, at 1:30 p.m. The theme for this year's event is, The Way of the Cross: Walking for Hunger, according to Rev. Kevin Mohr, president of the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association.
How many times did you mow your yard in September? Probably more often than you thought you might. That's because it rained 5.36 inches during September, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. The normal average September rainfall is 2.95 inches.
Fifteen of September's 30 days had rain, or a trace of rain reported.
Otherwise, it was a "normal" September. The average temperature for the month was 63.5 degrees. The normal average September temperature was 63.7 degrees.
