Gardeners of Bluffton and Pandora offer sign of hope in the Bluffton Public Library display case. The hope is that spring will come. The club meets at 6:30 p.m. each first Tuesday of the month at the library. The next meeting is Feb. 2.
Margaret A. Zeller, 69, died on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, at 11:11 a.m. at her residence in Harrod, Ohio, after a long battle with cancer.
She was born on Nov. 4, 1946 in Fremont, Ohio, to Robert and Mary Hotz who preceded her in death. On July 26, 1969, she married Richard T. Zeller and he died on July 11, 2001.
Bluffton University mascots J. Denny Beaver and Jenny Beaver had a special appreciation for kids this year as all four performers were education majors.
The students’ identities were revealed at halftime of the men’s basketball game on Jan. 16, during a ceremony that traditionally marks the only time that college mascots remove their costume heads in public.
Adrienne Leban’s exhibit titled “BioGeo, Rhythms in Form” will open on Feb. 2 and continue through Feb. 19. The exhibit will be on display in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton University’s Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The public is invited free of charge. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
Stories about gender specific stereotypes, MC USA convention to be told
February kicks off Bluffton’s spring semester “First Tuesday” Forum events. The first Tuesday of every month, between Feb. and April, two Forum lectures will be offered from 11 a.m. to noon.
On Feb. 2, Kathy DeBoer, Executive Director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, will present her speech titled “Gender and Competition: Discussing and Dealing with Difference” at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
Margaret Weaver, Mennonite Memorial Home resident, was recently visited by Teddy, a therapy dog. Connie Anderson bring Teddy to MMH and also to the Bluffton Public Library to have children read to him. Mrs. Weaver, who is known to an earlier generation of Bluffton High School student as a Latin teacher, recently celebrated her 94th birthday.
