Hanif Abdurraqib, a poet, essayist and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, will give a public reading at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 12 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall at Bluffton University. Abdurraqib is the author of a biography on A Tribe Called Quest called “Go Ahead in the Rain,” a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award nominee for “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much” and “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Pitchfork, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Esquire, GQ and Publisher’s Weekly.
Ashley Eachus, a senior, is the Bluffton High School February student of the month.
She is a member of the Symphonic Choir, Show Choir, Chamber Choir, Drama club, Renaissance and National Honor Society.
Ashley is a member of the BHS volleyball, basketball and soccer teams. She received an all-conference honorable mention from the NWC in volleyball her junior year. She is also an academic letter winner, and served as senior captain on the girls' basketball team that won the Northwest Conference title.
It must be spring - or getting closer to that season. Street work is already underway in Bluffton. Here's West Elm Street looking toward the Mennonite Home from Bentley Road after a complete pavement grinding took place on Friday. The grinding took all the pavement off the street. What you see here is a dirt road.
LOCAL CHURCH ASH WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE AT BOTTOM OF STORY -
Ash Wednesday, a century-old Christian tradition, becomes a new tradition in Bluffton this year, as the celebration to begin the season of Lent takes place on Wednesday, March 6.
From 7 to 9 a.m. a group of Bluffton area pastors will offer “Ashes to Go,” according to Rev. Karol Farris, pastor of Bluffton Presbyterian Church.
The idea behind the observance is this: Ashes to Go are offered because the reminders of need, humility, and healing shouldn’t be confined to church buildings.
Rita McVetta, 75, died March 2, 2019, at 12:26 p.m., at Bluffton Hospital.
Rita was born Aug. 21, 1943, in Findlay to the late Paul and Helen (Hartman) Rankin. On June 4, 1966, she married John "Bill" McVetta who survives in Mt. Cory.
Rita graduated from Cory-Rawson High School in 1961. She worked as a laborer for the Peerless Glove Factory and D.T.R Industries, both in Bluffton, retiring in 2007 from D.T.R. Industries.
Rita was a member of Mt. Cory United Methodist Church.
