August 5: National Night Out is·6:00 – 9:00 p.m. followed by Fireworks - Bluffton Community Pool, 205 Snider Rd. Free admission, free activities, free food.
This week The Icon talks with four more Bluffton third graders. They are Landyn Fleharty (Mrs. Raeburn’s class), Ethan Bogart (Mr. Armstrong’s class), Maeve Donaldson (Mrs. Bogart’s class), and Caleb Mckenzie (Mrs. Kingsley’s class).
Bluffton University mascot J. Denny Beaver is one busy beaver, as appearances at about 70 events (and counting) this academic year would attest J. Denny is so in demand, in fact, that it has taken three Bluffton students to perform his duties.
Their identities were revealed at halftime of the men’s basketball game on Feb. 13, during a “beheading” ceremony that traditionally marks the only time that college mascots remove their costume heads in public.
Jocelyn Urbanczke peeks over her Valentine's mail box at the Bluffton Child Development Center. Jocelyn, in the pre-kindergarten class, made her Valentine boxe on Feb. 14 at the Center to celebrate the day. She is the daughter of Sara and Justin Urbanczke of Bluffton.
Pandora native Fred Suter will is a guest speaker at Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora, on Sunday, Feb. 24. He will speak at a 6:30 p.m. program.
Suter is a former Mennonite Central Committee volunteer with the PAX program. He will talk about his work with getting fresh clean water to a hospital at the former African Inter-Mennonite Mission station of Ndjoko Pundo in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Bluffton University women’s basketball team was able to earn revenge against their arch-rivals on Wednesday, Feb. 13. The Beavers were defeated 54-32 in Defiance in their first meeting against the Yellow Jackets back on January 2.
However, Bluffton was able to turn the tables and defeat Defiance, 62-47, in a game they never trailed in the Sommer Center on Wednesday night. Bluffton also honored its lone senior, Lauren Hutton (New Riegel), on Senior Night prior to the contest.
