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Being Muslim in Post 9/11 America - Nov. 5 forum

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:09pm

Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, will address “Being Muslim in Post 9/11 America” at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Bluffton University’s Founders Hall. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Shearson will discuss her conversion from Catholicism to Islam and the challenging national climate faced by American Muslims.

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University Forum to mark Spiritual Life Week on campus

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:05pm

“Proving God’s Will” will be Justin Romine’s topic for a Nov. 12 forum during Spiritual Life Week at Bluffton University. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.

Romine, from Keystone, S.D., is summer internship director for the Keystone Project, a discipleship-training and global missions network. His Bluffton talk will examine the conflict between being conformed to the world and being transformed by the renewing of the mind, as developed in Romans 12:1-2.

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Opening a Jewish German’s diary during Third Reich - Bluffton University colloquium

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:04pm

Dr. Martina Cucchiara, an assistant professor of history at Bluffton University, will explore the diary of a Jewish German in Nazi Germany during a campus colloquium Nov. 8.

Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall will be the site of the 4 p.m. presentation, which is titled “‘I am suffocating on the evil that engulfs me’: The Diary of Erna Becker-Kohen, 1937-1963.” The event is free and open to the public.

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Here's where Bluffton EMS went in October

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 12:03pm

Jan Basinger, Bluffton EMS chief, provided The Icon with the October EMS runs.

 

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Police/Fire/EMS
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Ada public auction Nov. 7

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 2, 2013 - 11:29am

A public auction takes place at 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 7, at 509 N. Edwards St., Ada. The complete listing of auction items are in an attachment at the bottom of this story; and also are listed on The Icon classified page under Notices.

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Business
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Apple caramel pecan pie grand prize winner at Maple Crest

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 1, 2013 - 10:19pm

Is there anything more delicious than a homemade pie? On Friday, over 120 people took their fill of pies during the pie baking contest and spaghetti dinner hosted by Maple Crest Senior Living Village in Bluffton. 

Eighteen pies were entered and judged in three categories. Kim Keck and Amber Henry combined their skills and won the title of Best of Show with their Apple Caramel Pecan and shared the $100 grand prize. Each winner in the other categories won $50 for first, $25 for second and $15 for third place.

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