Bluffton University students who participated in a cross-cultural experience last spring will speak during campus Forums at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 26, in Yoder Recital Hall. The presentations are free and open to the public.
Students who traveled to Bolivia, Chicago and Botswana will recount their experiences in the morning while students who traveled to China, Trinidad and Kentucky will share their experiences in the evening.
Transition Bluffton will host a presentation on invasive plant species at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at the Bluffton town hall, 154 N. Main St.
Botanist Bob Antibus will talk and take questions about invasive plants in northwest Ohio. The event is free and open to the public.
Invasive plants are non-native species that can threaten our natural resources. Problems caused by invasive plants include crowding out of native Ohio plants, loss of suitable foods for area wildlife, and less plant diversity.
From Oct. 1 through Nov. 5, Bluffton University will host the traveling exhibit “Mirror of the Martyrs” in the Albrecht Gallery of Sauder Visual Arts Center. This dramatic and colorful exhibit tells the story of religious conflict and violence in the Reformation era from the perspective of Anabaptist martyrs and offers one way to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-6 p.m.
Here’s a preview of a story coming on the Icon Monday afternoon. Meet the 2017 Bluffton HS homecoming court. In no order, Crown Bearers, Bowen Shutler an Addie Althaus with court members, Clara Matthews, Simon Derstine (freshmen); Olivia Burner and Brandt Manns (sophomores); Hannah Yost and Rhett Donaldson (juniors); and Lean Conley, Sydney Hoff, Allison Wise, Dakota Bricker, Christian Groman and Kaleb Jefferson (seniors). The next photos is the court from the 50 yard line.
