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Bluffton University will host Game Day @ Bluffton Saturday, Sept. 3, when the Beavers meet Kalamazoo College in their football home opener at 2 p.m. at Salzman Stadium.

Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children; children under 5 are admitted free.

Before the game, a picnic-style lunch will be available in a tent at the stadium from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost is $6.

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A monarch butterfly sips some nectar from a butterfly bush on a hot afternoon in September.

Tickets are on sale while they last for the 10th annual Ebenezer Mennonite Church dinner theatre.

This year's event focuses on patriotic music featured in "We the People," a patriotic musical by Pat Cook and Bill Francoeur.

Performances are on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 10-11 and 17-18 at the Crossroads Ministry Center of Bluffton's Ebenezer Mennonite Church. Kevin Gratz directs the production.

Jim Kinn of Kirtland's Auto Sales, 302 N. Main St., announces a new manager's special. It is a 2003 VW Beetle GLS Convertible priced at $9,495. For more details on the manager's special click on the printer-friendly attachment at the bottom of this story.

Kirtland's is an Icon advertiser.

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Bees and insects drawn to sunflowers do their thing on this sunflower head in Bluffton.

Dr. James M. Harder, president of Bluffton University, will present the annual President's Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, in Founders Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

As the new academic year gets under way, Harder will highlight a number of ways that Bluffton is moving forward, including new campus initiatives and facilities improvements.

He will also introduce Bluffton's campus-wide civic engagement theme for the year, "Public Health: Promoting Wellness for Self and Community."

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