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Professor, writer to share ‘A New Story’ Nov. 6

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:43pm

Dr/. Susan Streeter Carpenter, an associate professor of English at Bluffton University, will talk about the writing process and read some of her recent fiction during a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 6.

Free and open to the public, her presentation, “A New Story,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

 

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November public library newsletter on the Icon

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:42pm

The Bluffton Public Library's November electronic newsletter is now on The Icon.

Click here to open it.

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‘Everyday water-walkers’ are all around, speaker tells university audience

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:18pm

Instances of water-walking still happen in the world—and Jonathan Larson says he has found some.

Maybe not exactly parallel to what Jesus and the apostle Peter do in Matthew 14, but nonetheless what Larson called “real ‘water-walking’” deeds of moral courage in examples he provided Oct. 27 at Bluffton University.

And Jesus’ words to Peter—“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”—echo in every story, taken from the work and travels of Larson, Bluffton’s Spiritual Life Week speaker.

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Bluffton professor discusses new book

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:15pm

Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, gestures during an Oct. 27 discussion of her new book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control,” in Bluffton’s Musselman Library. The book is the first by Janzen, a third-year faculty member at the university and its 2015-16 C. Henry Smith Scholar. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Toronto.

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Blanchard River Watershed Partnership annual meeting Nov. 18

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2015 - 12:12pm

The annual meeting of the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership (BRWP) will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the Hancock Ag. Center, 7868 County Road 140, Findlay. 

A continental breakfast will be served at 7 a.m. with the meeting portion starting at 7:30 a.m. The meeting will conclude by 9 a.m. A RSVP is required for breakfast; please respond to [email protected] or call Phil Martin, Watershed Coordinator at 419.422.6487.

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Bluffton's town meeting

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 29, 2015 - 6:06pm

Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce held a mayoral candidate forum at the middle school on Oct. 28. The 60-plus minute forum allowed the three candidates to offer views on several village matters.

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