Here are the most popular baby names of the Bluffton area, born at Bluffton Hospital this year. Of the nearly one hundred reported to the Icon, the top names were Grace for a girl, and Owen, for a boy.
If you are overweight don't come to Bluffton. That's one of the messages at the village entrance on Grove Road. The new weight limit signs were recently installed by the county.
The Dough Hook, 117 N. Main St., starts the new year with three chances to enroll in the next Creative Crockpot Cooking class, according to Marlena Ballinger.
Each class is from 6 to 8 p.m. and class options are:
• Wednesday, Jan. 9
• Wednesday, Jan. 16
• Thursday, Jan. 31
“Participants will learn skills while creating some delicious meals,” she said. “Each participant will receive one meal in the crockpot and then take home three meals that will be ready for your freezer.”
Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery will host “Unspeakable Time, Art and Activism” by Sana Musasama. The series features a collection of ceramic mixed-media pieces that pose an inquiry into the nature of violence and healing in women’s lives.
The Board of Trustees of Bluffton Public Library will hold its annual organizational meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 6:30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to elect officers, set the 2019 meeting schedule and approve temporary authorizations for 2019.
Spiritual writer Christiana Peterson, will present “Searching for Koinonia: In Community with Mystics and Misfits,” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, in Yoder Recital Hall.
A blogger and author, Peterson will share her experience of living in a Mennonite intentional community and being drawn to mystics such as St. Francis, Dorothy Day and Clare of Assisi. Peterson has a master’s degree in theology and a Ph.D. in creative writing from St. Andrews University in Scotland.
