Pleasant View United Methodist Church, Bluffton, will host a soup benefit on Sunday, Oct. 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The benefit will include numerous soups, breads and desserts along with drink. It is by donation. Face painting and animal balloons will be available for the children during the benefit.
Bluffton University students who participated in a cross-cultural experience last spring will speak during a campus forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Founders Hall. The presentations are free and open to the public.
Students who traveled to Bangladesh, Iceland, Chicago, Arizona/Mexico and Appalachia will recount their experiences.
At one time or another every town should have an Al Ingalls.
Bluffton had one. And we truly feel for the towns that didn’t.
Al and his wife, Millie, owned Ingalls Restaurant. It was the last real sit-down restaurant on Main Street.
What a place. Hours were, oh, 5:30 a.m. to, what, 10 p.m. at night?
Those hours were set for the community, not the owners. It operated in a sort of informal “community system.” Meetings took place there. Deals developed. Coffee was poured. More meetings took place. More deals developed. More coffee was poured.
The Celina Bulldog soccer team visited Bluffton’s Steinmetz Field for a muddy affair on Saturday, 9-17-16. Celina prevailed by 1-0.
The non-conference game pitted two skilled teams who spent a lot of the game under tight pressure from each other. Bluffton had 4 shots on goal and Celina had three.
The lone score came at the 20th minute of the game by Jarren Casto when he managed to break free of the tenacious Bluffton defenders.
Celina goalkeeper, Aden Gariety, had 4 saves; Bluffton keeper, Levi Smith, had two saves.
Bluffton High School homecoming is Friday. Several events take place this week. Those events are listed in a story elsewhere on the Icon. Here are members of this year's homecoming court.
Videos and photos of the court at bottom of this story -
During Bluffton University’s annual President’s Forum, President James Harder explored the topic of respect. Respect is one of Bluffton’s four enduring values along with discovery, community and service.
Over the years, Bluffton has also developed an intentional and carefully-considered set of relational values that has come to be called Bluffton’s “Community of Respect” statement. The statement guides the ways members of the campus community relate to each other.
Chauncey Gilbert Basinger, 90, died Sept. 19, 2016 at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. Chauncey was born Oct. 8, 1925, in Allen County, Ohio to the late Millard and Sylvia (Spallinger) Basinger. On Nov. 6, 1949, he married Miriam Anderson Basinger who preceded him in death on June 8, 2010.
Chauncey retired from Ex-Cello Corporation in Bluffton. He was a member of the Columbus Grove United Methodist Church, the American Legion Post in Columbus Grove and the Columbus Grove Lions Club. Chauncey was an Army veteran serving in World War II.
Three times a year, members of the Mennonite Schools Council meet. Every other year, one of these meetings is at a Mennonite college and for the first time in nearly a decade, that meeting was held at Bluffton University.
