The Allen County Creating Healthy Communities Project, Allen County Bike and Pedestrian Task Force and Allen County Public Health are promoting Walk to School Day on Wednesday, Oct. 8.
Terry Mullenhour, chair of the Bluffton cultural affairs committee, invites any interested resident to help place the Ream holiday folk art display pieces on the Presbyterian Church lawn next month.
The set up is Saturday morning, Nov. 8. Mullenhours said volunteers can bring hammers and screwdrivers and be ready to help place the pieces in the yard for the 2014 Blaze of Lights season.
Persons wanting to volunteer may contact her at: terry&[email protected]
Bridge Bereavement Services is offering a Creative Expressions Grief Support Group on Thursday, October 16 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the second floor conference room at Bluffton Hospital, 139 Garau Street, Bluffton. This program will offer participants the opportunity to turn their loved one’s clothing into an ornament keepsake.
Rawson family is being assisted by the American Red Cross of Hancock County following a fire at their home on Township Road 25 on Tuesday.
Red Cross volunteer disaster responders provided assistance to the family for food, comfort kits containing personal hygiene items, stuffed animals for the family’s children and other immediate needs.
BlufftonConnection.com joins the Icon with material this school year. The "Connection" is a student-operated website of campus information from Bluffton University. It has replaced the former campus print newspaper "The Witmarsum."
BlufftonConnection is linked to The Icon. Viewers may read "Connection" stories from the Icon's homepage "blog" section.
The website is also linked to the campus radio station, WBWH, 96.1 FM.