The community garden at Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora is now taking reservations for the 2014 gardening season. Plots are 30 x 35 feet in size and are located on the grounds of the church building at 502 East Main Street, Pandora.
Water is available periodically during the summer. A donation of $30 is suggested for use of the plot. To reserve a garden plot, phone Carolyn at 419-384-3829.
These plots have been prepared as a community service to Pandora, Bluffton, and other area communities. Anyone who is interested in gardening is welcome.
Bluffton High School's 15th annual academic letter banquet is at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 18, in the Bluffton middle school cafetorium.
Students must have cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher to receive an academic letter.
Ten BHS seniors will make presentations. They are: Jonah Bourassa, Landon Cluts, Luke Headings, Andrew Hoff, Jonatan Moser, Trent Phillips, Ryan Sprague, Billy Theisen, Stephen Tatarkov and Aaron Wannemacher.
The entire list of students receiving academic letters is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Jeff Gundy, a professor of English at Bluffton University, will present a program on Thursday, March 27, on his newly published book, “Somewhere Near Defiance.”
Beginning with refreshments at 3:45 p.m., the event—also featuring student participants—is free and open to the public in Bluffton’s Musselman Library Reading Room. Afterward, Gundy will sign copies of his book, which will be available for purchase.
Dr. Brian Bantum, an assistant professor of theology at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary, will address the question “Discipleship: What’s Race Got to Do with It?” in a Bluffton University forum on Tuesday, March 25. Free and open to the public, the event will begin at 11 a.m. in Bluffton’s Founders Hall.
Bluffton University art majors Lydia Speicher of Marysville, Ohio, and Erika Lauf of Lima, Ohio, will display art they have created at Bluffton during their senior exhibition, from March 25-April 6 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibit, titled “Figurative Psychology,” is free and open to the public, as is a reception for the artists from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 30. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
