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Wow!

Did you catch that Monday night sunset that only one thousands words could describe? How could you not notice.

The Icon staff, on a walk, captured some of the images on a cell phone. We offer a small sliver of the purples, golds, reds, blacks and everything inbetween.

Open the photo attachment below. Can you identify the location of the photos? Photos by Mary Pannabecker Steiner

A Parkinson’s disease (PD) information program takes place at 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 25, at Bluffton Public Library, 145 S. Main St., Bluffton.

Program sponsors, Mennonite Memorial Home (MMH) and Northwest Physical Therapy, both of Bluffton, will also launch a fitness and mobility program designed for people with the disease. Information on that program will be provided at the meeting.

Although he’s “still not very good at it,” Justin McRoberts says, learning to practice the Sabbath-keeping commandment “has been quite literally life-saving.”

Believers are commanded to remember the Sabbath as a reminder of the goodness of their lives and God-given gifts, McRoberts, a San Francisco Bay Area pastor and musician, told a Bluffton University audience March 17.

More than two years after Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast, residents of Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, are still rebuilding what was lost. For a week in March, 13 Bluffton University students and staff spent their spring break trying to help.

What would it be like to live in poverty for one month?

The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association (BAMA) will host a poverty simulation from 9 a.m. till noon on Saturday, April 11, at Burcky Gym on the Bluffton University campus. Light refreshments will be served.

The Village of Bluffton’s personnel committee meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 19, at 4 p.m. has been canceled, according to Nancy Kindle, village fiscal officer.

 

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