Donations can be dropped off to BFR (215 Snider Road in Bluffton) during all building hours.
Friday, Feb. 14, is the last day for donations to the Used Shoe Drive underway at BFR Sports & Fitness. Used shoes of any type, size and condition are welcome. All donations will be sent to micro-enterprise operations across the world where items are cleaned and repaired for resale or dismantled for recycling.
BFR Sports and Fitness' Keeping Active program is at the halfway mark this week. Community members of all ages are invited to take part in a variety of free programs including free fitness classes, free days of walking inside the BFR facility, nutritional information sessions, and family events.
Bluffton Housing Corp., the governing body of Vance Street Apartments and Riley View Apartments, 115 E. College Ave., will hold its annual stockholders' meeting at Vance Street on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.
Accoding to De Beer, board secretary, the agenda includes reports of the operations of Riley View Apartments and Vance Street Apartments and the election of officers.
Three board members' terms expire. They are Deb Beer, Mary Fett and Wally Buroker. Continuing board members are Dr. Matthew Jordan, Kathy Rode, Ed Yeager, Fred Rodabaugh and Bob Fett.
The Village of Bluffton is on a Level 2 Snow Emergency. Village offices are closed today. Trash pick up will be delayed one day for the remainder of the week. The announcement was made at approximately 8:50 a.m.
From the Bluffton University website:
Essential employees, please report to campus at your regular time. Due to weather and road conditions, morning classes are canceled. Classes begin at noon and offices open at 1 p.m.
Commuter students who feel it is not safe to drive from their home, please be in contact with your professors.
The weather may interfere, but in case it does not, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a brown bag lunch roundtable discussion from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in the third floor of the town hall.
*Should the event be postponed, a reschedule date of Wednesday, Feb. 12, is in place.
The roundtable's theme continues the chamber's Jan. 17 breakfast discussion of “How can we improve Bluffton?" The discussion is open to any chamber member and Bluffton resident.
