Twenty-five Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce members will display their products and services to Bluffton University students on Thursday during the chamber’s University Business Showcase.
The annual event takes place in Marbeck Center dining area while university students are at lunch.
Participating businesses have display tables in the dining area. Most of the businesses have drawings and give-a-ways, so the event is always popular among students.
The Bluffton community’s 11th annual Fall Festival, with many family-oriented activities, takes place throughout the community on Saturday, Sept. 27, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.
Clergy, social workers, counselors, nurses, physicians and community health workers are invited to attend a workshop on providing psychosocial and spiritual care to cancer survivors from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11 in the Marathon Auditorium at Blanchard Valley Hospital, 1900 S. Main St., Findlay. Social work continuing education credits will be offered to those in attendance.
Bluffton Child Development Center kindergartener, Ethan Leiber, examines the crickets that he and his classmates collected in the Center lawn. "There must be a hundred here," he told the Icon. The crickets are fed to the Center's pet bull frog, Bill.
Two local Boy Scouts -- Roger Zeits and Carrick Lancaster -- were honored for achieving the Eagle Rank at an Eagle Court of Honor August 17 at First United Methodist Church. Both scouts joined Bluffton Boy Scout Troop 256 in May 2009 and have been active members since.
Roger is a senior at Bluffton High School and is a member of the soccer and
tennis teams. Roger attends First United Methodist Church in Bluffton. He
is the son of Clair and Victoria Zeits.
Interested in star gazing? Ohio Northern University's Observatory will hold a star party celebrating galaxies -- in particular, The Andromeda Galaxy -- on Friday, Sept 19 between 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
