It's great weather for a fall harvest. Area farmers are busy all week taking off soybeans and corn. Here are some views of 'beans coming off the field on Columbus Grove Road near Tom Fett Road.
Dr. Wood: "What does it mean to have a university education when students can hold in their hands a smartphone, which can access more information and produce more facts than our counterparts in the Middle Ages could have ever imagined?”
During her inaugural address as Bluffton University’s 10th president, Dr. Jane Wood pondered a fact that many people in Yoder Recital Hall likely didn’t realize.
Annalise Nisly, a Bluffton High School junior, is the Bluffton Icon's student artist of the month.
She has taken Art one, ceramics one and ceramics two.
" I enjoy ceramics because working with clay in my hands is calming and therapeutic to me," she said. "I especially like this project because I have a lot of creative freedom and I get to be working on one of the most fascinating ecosystems on the earth: the coral reef."
Here plans after high school include college, but specific plans are undecided. Vickie Garmon is the Bluffton HS art teacher.
The 30th annual “Living Through Loss” educational series by Bridge Home Health and Hospice, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, is currently underway.
Presentations are held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Marathon Auditorium at Blanchard Valley Hospital, located at 1900 S. Main St., in Findlay. The topic for October is “Myths & Misconceptions of Grief” presented by Jill Gilgenbach, bereavement coordinator at Bridge Home Health and Hospice. The presentation will take place on Monday, Oct. 15.
Rehearsals for Bluffton University’s 123rd performance of Handel’s “Messiah” will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 16-Dec. 4 in the Gilliom Room of Mosiman Hall on campus.
Anyone interested in singing, from high school students to adults, is invited to join the chorus, which includes Bluffton students, faculty, staff and community members. There is no cost to participate.
