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Pleasant View UMC soup lunch benefit April 3

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on March 30, 2016 - 6:34pm

Pleasant View United Methodist Church will be hold a Soup Lunch Benefit on
Sunday, April 3 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pleasant View UMC at 300 CR# 37,
Bluffton.

Proceeds will be going to the Mount Cory/Pleasant View UMC Mission Book
Mobile Project. In addition to your monetary donation, you are welcome to
bring a book for the book mobile.

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Worship
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Bluffton grade cards going home April 1 (no fooling)

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2016 - 4:56pm

April and its showers will be upon us soon. Here's a quick look at some of April's calendar listings at the Bluffton elementary school. It's from the school website.

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Regional news
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Roadblock

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2016 - 4:21pm

Oh, the places we’ll go!  Colton and Caden from Bluffton Community Preschool enjoy learning about transportation and then creating their own roadblock. (Linda Headings photos)

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Roller skates from an earlier era

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2016 - 4:06pm

Let's place this photo in the spring of the 1971-72 school year. That's our guess. Viewers may offer other suggestions.

Todd Gratz took this photo of five BHS girls on roller skates - long before the popular skates of today were invented. You needed to lock these skates on your shoes.

From left, Alice Moser, Anita Baker, Diana Amstutz, Rosie Rodabaugh and Bev McCune.

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Historical Bluffton
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Riley Creek Festival planning underway for April

Posted by Fred Steiner on March 30, 2016 - 3:45pm

Bluffton University will host the annual Riley Creek Festival from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in the Sommer Center.
 
Open to the public, the event is free except for lunch, which costs $9 for community members.
 
The festival will feature family-friendly inflatables, face painting, music, games and other activities, concluding with the traditional rubber duck race on Riley Creek. Rubber ducks will be sold for $1 each, with proceeds to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Duck race winners will receive prizes donated by local businesses.

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Bluffton University
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Peace oratorical contest held April 5 in Yoder Recital Hall

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on March 30, 2016 - 1:24pm

Bluffton University will hold its annual C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest at 7 p.m. on April 5 in Yoder Recital Hall. 
 
Students selected to participate will prepare an oration (no more than ten-minutes in length) that applies a peace church perspective to an issue of contemporary concern. The student who is awarded first prize will receive $175. The second and third prize speakers will receive $125 and $100, respectively.
 

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Bluffton University
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