Stories about gender specific stereotypes, MC USA convention to be told
February kicks off Bluffton’s spring semester “First Tuesday” Forum events. The first Tuesday of every month, between Feb. and April, two Forum lectures will be offered from 11 a.m. to noon.
On Feb. 2, Kathy DeBoer, Executive Director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, will present her speech titled “Gender and Competition: Discussing and Dealing with Difference” at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
Margaret Weaver, Mennonite Memorial Home resident, was recently visited by Teddy, a therapy dog. Connie Anderson bring Teddy to MMH and also to the Bluffton Public Library to have children read to him. Mrs. Weaver, who is known to an earlier generation of Bluffton High School student as a Latin teacher, recently celebrated her 94th birthday.
Dr. Justin Kantner, O.D., Bluffton optometrist, says he’s testing his faith.
Really.
The test is to step away from his small-town practice and move with his wife, Elya, and their young son, Caleb, to southern rural Paraguay. There, he will become an optometrist and church planter. Elya will become a Bible translator.
The 2000 Bluffton High School grad joined Dr. Mark Yoder of Family Eye Care, 107 N. Main St., Bluffton, in 2009. Dr. Kantner’s practice there will end this spring. The family will move to Paraguay in June.
American Association of Retired People, AARP, will provide tax aide at the Bluffton Senior Citizen’s Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 9 a.m. Feb. 2, according to Tonya Meyer, director. The free service will continue through April 14.
AARP volunteers specialize in helping taxpayers with low and moderate-income, with special attention to those aged 60 and older.
Here's Bluffton High School in the winter at the corner of Main and College. The photo on the left, in black and white, with a 1941 (?) Chevrolet coupe parked on Main, is from the 1951 BHS yearbook.
The Icon's attempt to photography the same scene is the result on the right in color. At the bottom of this story you will find individual photos from 1951 and 2016.
Just because students at Bluffton University grew up with liberty and their parents grew up with liberty, there is no guarantee their children will have it.
The warning came from Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education.
“In fact, if you look at the history of the world you will find that very few people that have lived, perhaps a single digit percentage of people who have ever lived, were said to have lived in a considerable degree of liberty,” said Reed.
