BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women’s basketball team continued its winning ways as the Beavers knocked off the Heidelberg Student Princes, 85-79, in front of a raucous pre-Thanksgiving crowd in the Sommer Center on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Bluffton improved to 3-0 on the young season, while the Student Princes dropped to 2-2.
Christina Dare, photo artist, will have an exhibit of her work at Book ReViews, 123 S. Main St., from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, according to Dr. Christina Walton, manager.
Dare will talk about her photos during the show.
After retiring from Owens Community College, Dare’s hobby became a full time successful award winning photography career with photo art exhibits in Ohio and international online venue.
Her photos use micro and macro elements of design and manipulation of flora, sky, nature and fractals.
Bluffton’s newest business, Li Co Chinese and Italian Restaurant, will open for business on Monday, Nov. 30.
Located in the former Bluffton KFC Restaurant, 415 State Route 103, Bluffton, the restaurant will be open seven days a week.
Wen and Cheng Tsai of Lima are the owners. The couple will work in all aspects of the business including the kitchen. In addition, Allen Chu, who also has several years of restaurant background in Taiwan, is the restaurant’s Italian chef.
Each Friday and Saturday evening from 9-11 p.m., the Mustard Seed Café at the Depot will be offering “After Hours” for their guests at the café.
After Hours offers a special menu of inventive-heavy appetizers, from scampi to barbecued pulled pork tacos with avocado cream and lime, to chocolate chip cookies and milk along with many other options, even a deconstructed sushi.
Dr. Randy Keeler, an associate professor of religion at Bluffton University, will present “The State of Youth Ministry in the Ohio Mennonite Conference” during a campus colloquium on Friday, Dec. 4.
Free and open to the public, his talk will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.
Jeff Gundy, a professor of English at Bluffton University, will present a program Thursday, Dec. 3, on his newly published book of poems, “Abandoned Homeland.”
Beginning with refreshments at 3:45 p.m., the event is free and open to the public in Bluffton’s Musselman Library Reading Room. Afterward, Gundy will sign copies of his book, which will be available for purchase.
Nan Rooney and Della Salter, both turning 90 in December, will receive Lifetime memberships into the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association during the Monday, Dec. 14, month center meeting, according to Tonya Meyer, director.
That announcement was in the December center newsletter. Several addition center items were listed. Those include:
Center will be closed Thursday, Dec. 24, Friday, Dec. 25 and on Thursday, Dec. 31 and Friday, Jan. 1.
During November and December the center extends its hours to 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday mornings.
Stratton Auto Sales and Tommy Tire Sales will sponsor two free showings of the movie "It's a Wonderful Life," on Friday, Nov. 27, at the Shannon Theatre.
Showings are at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift," which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945.
Mount Cory United Methodist Church will host its 3rd annual "Heaven Came
Down."
It is a display of angels and nativity scenes. Showins are from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday Dec. 5 and 12, and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6 and 13, at the Bethel Family Life Center, 201 W. Washington St., Mount Cory.
This event is open to the public and is free of charge.
Two art exhibitions will open Tuesday, Dec. 1 at Bluffton University. Both are free and open to the pubic.
Hannah Barber, a Bluffton senior from Bowling Green, Ohio, will present her senior show, “Aimless Wandering,” through Dec. 14 in the Marbeck Center Gallery. Her art is a mix of digital, drawing, painting, photography and 3-D work. The exhibit may be seen during building hours, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily; a reception will be held in the gallery from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6.
