The churches of Pandora and Gilboa are offering food boxes for households in the Pandora-Gilboa School District. The boxes are designed to provide nine meals for a family of four. In order to pick up a box, you must register by calling 419-384-3038 by 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 16. Boxes will be available to be picked at 11 a.m. up Saturday, Feb. 28 at Grace Mennonite Church, 502 East Main St., Pandora.
Bluffton University mascot J. Denny Beaver gained a partner this year in Jenny Beaver. And the pair proved so popular that five Bluffton students were needed to fill their shoes.
The students’ identities were revealed at halftime of the men’s basketball game on Jan. 31, during a ceremony that traditionally marks the only time that college mascots remove their costume heads in public.
Cole Koenig takes flight on his sled on the hill behind the Sauder Visual Arts Center parking lot on the Bluffton University campus. School was cancelled on Monday and with six new inches of snow on the ground it was a perfect day for sledding.
Bluffton University students who studied off campus last fall semester will relate their experiences during campus forums at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10. The talks are free and open to the public.
Seven students who spent the semester in Guatemala will speak at the 11 a.m. session in Founders Hall. Scheduled to present at 7 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall are Amanda Bartel and Ashley Knippen—both of whom studied at the Washington (D.C.) Community Scholars’ Center—along with Brent “Cody” Cook and Julia Thomas, who were in Northern Ireland and Ecuador, respectively.
