The Icon's travel editors, Dan and Brenda Groman, filed this story and photos today on their visit to Bluffton Alberta.
We were traveling from Lloydminster to Calgary by way of Edmonton while in Alberta, Canada on business.
We set our Garmin for Bluffton, and headed two hours southwest of Edmonton and found Bluffton, right off of Route 20.
Arriving on the North side of town, we found the Bluffton School, home of the Bluffton "Stingers", where students from Kindergarten through 9th grade attend.
About 200 voices came together at Bluffton University Nov. 12 for the finale of both a gospel music concert and a weeklong, campus celebration of gospel titled "Blended Voices: Music and Worship in the Gospel Tradition."
Participating choirs included the Bluffton University Gospel Choir, a 65-member group of community, as well as campus, representatives directed by Dr. Crystal Sellers, an assistant professor of music; three other campus choral groups; four choirs from area churches; and the Columbus, Ohio-based Raise Productions Choir, led by Dr. Raymond Wise.
Bluffton council dealt with several expenditures on Monday.
Those expenditures included:
o agreeing to advertise for annual asphalt and aggregate material bids for 2012,
o approval of a $16,862 bid from Beaverdam Contracting, Inc., for replacement of the waterline on Poplar Street, and
o payment of $17,878 for asphalt sealing work at the airport. The village will be reimbursed 95 percent of the amount from the FAA as part of a grant that was received for the project.
Bob Bowersox makes certain that exactly one pound of the best peanut brittle in Ohio is in every bag. One pound costs $5 while supplies last. Click for a video.
The Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce Nov. 11 newsletter is now available for Icon viewers.
The newsletter is in a printer-friendly attachement at the bottom of this story. Inside this issue includes stories on the new garlands on Main Street plus additional chamber news.
