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Julie Friesen, director of programs, Community Justice Initiatives in Waterloo, Ontario, will present her speech titled “The Elmira Case Film” at 11 a.m., Feb. 7 in Yoder Recital Hall.

She will reflect on a documentary film about how a drunken rampage in 1974 in Elmira, Ontario, Canada, helped to launch the worldwide restorative justice movement and also began her agencies’ innovative work in restorative justice.

This event is free and open to the public. 

Register by Feb. 2 for this Oakwoods Nature Preserve event

An Animal Tracks and Signs nature program takes place Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. at Oakwoods Nature Preserve’s Discovery Center, Findlay. You’ll learn how to look for and identify tracks and signs, take a hike to see what animals have been on the trails, and make your own track to take home.

All ages are welcome. Register with $2 per person by 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2. There is a minimum six and a maximum of 30 participants. Oakwoods Nature Preserve’s Richard S. “Doc” Phillips Discovery Center is located at 1400 Oakwoods Lane, off County Road 144, west of Findlay. 

Doris D. Conrad, 91 died Jan. 26, 2017, at Richland Manor Nursing Home, Bluffton.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

Dorothy Colene Wetherill age 87, of Forest died in Bridge Hospice Care Center at Blanchard Valley Hospital on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017.

Free classes open to the public on a variety of subjects

Active and healthy minds.

That’s the focus of classes offered soon by the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St., according to Tonya Meyer, director.

The classes will take place Mondays at 9:30 a.m.

According to Meyer the classes hope to fill a little of the gap left by the absence of ILR classes at Bluffton University.

She added that many ILR participants are also members of the Bluffton Senior Center, so the center decided to launch the project.

Students introduced to career possibilities

Bluffton High School sophomores will be among nearly 750 sophomores in Apollo Career Center’s 11-member district visiting Apollo during 411Blast, Friday, Jan. 27.

Bluffton sophomores will visit Apollo during two sessions: 9 to 9:58 a.m. and 10:02 to 11 a.m. Students will eat lunch at Apollor from noon to 12:35 p.m.
 
This day exposes students to career possibilities and paths that available to inhance their career or college success.

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