Soccer fans can now sign-up for Session III Bluffton Family Recreation indoor soccer league play, according to Joseph Beagle, BFR director.
The session runs five weeks from Feb. 19 through April 1 and the sign-up deadline is Sunday, Feb. 12. Players should note that Session III starts one week earlier than originally posted in the fall.
The session includes a tournament at the conclusion of league play and the team registration fee is $475.
Bluffton University students, faculty and staff link arms and sing “We Shall Overcome” during a Martin Luther King Jr. Forum in a packed Yoder Recital Hall on Jan. 17. Below Jessica Boggan, Malik Jackson, Dr. Paul Neufeld Weaver, Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle and Dr. Melissa Friesen sing “We Shall Overcome” after performing “My Voice, My Community, My Bluffton: Race on Our Campus.” The readers theatre performance was written and directed by Sellers Battle. (Claire Clay photos)
Bluffton Board of Zoning and Building Appeals will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the third floor of the town hall.
The hearing is to consider a request for the approval of a Conditional Use of a hospital-owned parcel at 565 Harmon Road, currently zoned in the R-II Residential District.
The Conditional Use reqeust involves this property being used as a parking area for medical office use.
Dr. Lucia Unrau, a pianist and professor of music at Bluffton University, will present a faculty recital 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, in Bluffton’s Yoder Recital Hall.
The performance will feature works by Chopin, Mozart and Ginastera. The recital is free and open to the public.
Unrau is a former president of the Ohio Music Teachers Association and was its 2009 Collegiate Teacher of the Year.
She has been on the Interlochen Center for the Arts piano faculty since 1993 and has served as camp keyboard coordinator, overseeing the keyboard curriculum, since 2005.
Bluffton University students will report on their fall 2016 semester experiences studying in Guatemala, Washington D.C., and Spain during two different sessions on Jan. 31.
The first is at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall. This presentation will focus on the students who traveled to Guatemala. The second presentation will be held at 7 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall. Students from Washington D.C., and Spain will share their experiences during this time. Both events are free and open to the public.
Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce goes green in 2017.
Membership window stickers were handed out at the Jan. 13 chamber breakfast. Members not attending the breakfast will receive the 2017 window stickers soon.
