By Monty Siekerman - Ada Icon
A Hardin County wind turbine project is being placed east of Ada this fall.
• The turbines are gigantic compared to the three at ONU and the one at Ada Schools. The tower of these is 300 feet high, the blade is 150 feet long, thus when a blade is pointing up, the turbine reaches 450 feet from the ground.
Bluffton University will host a fall choral concert featuring the University Chorale and Camerata Singers at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Feast your ears on the sounds of Palestrina, Handel, Debussy and Duruflé as Natalie Mallis, visiting assistant professor of music, will conduct the concert in collaboration with university accompanists Ana Yoder Coulter and Benjamin Crook.
This event is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships.
Wendy Chappell-Dick (center) and the Anabaptist Singers share the hymns of Anabaptist martyrs sung to contemporary tunes during “Grace to you and Peace: Voices of the Martyrs” on Oct. 15 in Bluffton University’s Yoder Recital Hall.
Chappell-Dick adapted more than 20 songs for the performance which also featured the voices of about a dozen Bluffton community members.
Riley Creek United Methodist Church will hold a service of hymn singing and songs at 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 29, accortding to Duane Kemerley, pastor.
The church is located southeast of Ottawa and northwest of Pandora at the intersection of Putnam County Roads M and 7-L (7102 County Road M, Ottawa OH 45875), across from Putnam Stone Company.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Jenera, will hold a mission festival on Sunday, Oct. 22. Pastor Glenn Hieb, a missionary who served in Japan for 20 years, will deliver the sermon in both the 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services. Between services, at 9:20 a.m., Pastor Hieb will have a presentation on world missions.
Dr. Andrea Motto ‘97, manager of public and youth engagement at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, explained that growing up in a working class immigrant community and continuing her education at Bluffton helped guide her to be a social justice warrior during her Oct. 10 Forum presentation, “Privilege, Resilience and Equity in Science Education," at Bluffton University.
