A frozen snow-covered Riley Creek tells lots of tales. What creatures of the night created these paths? This creekside view is from the Adams Bridge looking over the Little Riley on the university campus.
James G. Alt, 90, of Bluffton died 3:06 a.m. Jan. 27, 2014, at St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima. He was born Feb. 15, 1923, in Putnam County to the late Arthur and Elizabeth Nadler Alt. On Feb. 16, 1957 he married Ursula Nussbaum and she survives.
He retired from the Ford Engine Plant, Lima. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bluffton, VFW Post 9381, Ada, and Putnam County DAV Chapter 77.
Place 60 Bluffton residents in a room, provide them with a free breakfast, divide them into seven tables, designate one person to take notes, then ask four questions, with six minutes to address each question.
Using this format, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce held a brainstorming session on how to improve the community. The discussion included lots of ideas (see responses below).
Award-winning Mennonite poet Jean Janzen will return to Bluffton to read from her work at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Musselman Library Reading Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Janzen’s books include “Paper House,” “Piano in the Vineyard,” “Tasting the Dust” and “Snake in the Parsonage”—all poems—as well as “Entering the Wild: Essays on Faith and Writing.” Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Christian Century, Image, and many other magazines and anthologies.
Dr. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht, moderator of Mennonite Church USA, will share “Mi Camino, Nuestra Historia (My Road, Our History)” in a Bluffton University forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Founders Hall.
Albrecht, also director of field education at Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary, will relate her childhood journey from her native Puerto Rico to the United States. Like other Latino/Latina immigrants, she experienced rejection, oppression and pressures to assimilate in the U.S.
