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Note: The public is invited to a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony for the Lions Way Bike and Pedestrian Pathway in Bluffton at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21. The event takes place at Comfort Inn, 117 Commerce Lane, at the eastern entrance of the pathway. Here’s a brief history of Bluffton’s bike and pedestrian pathways.

When the Lions Way Bike and Pedestrian Pathway opens on Oct. 21 it is not the first step nor last in creating a bike and walking path that encircles Bluffton.

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“How Hutterites Work around the Internet” will be Dr. Gerald Mast’s topic in a Bluffton University colloquium on Friday, Oct. 17.

Free and open to the public, the presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall.

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Craig Cheek, an assistant director of strength and conditioning at the University of Notre Dame, will return to his alma mater, Bluffton University, on Tuesday, Oct. 21, to discuss “How Athletics Prepared Me for a Life of Service.”

Beginning at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall, the Bluffton Forum presentation is free and open to the public.

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The Bluffton University Social Work Club will hold a canned food drive that will begin Monday, Oct. 20, and culminate with “trick or canning” during community trick-or-treat night on Thursday, Oct. 30.

Collection boxes will be set out Oct. 20 at Common Grounds and Community Market in Bluffton, as well as in Marbeck Center, Centennial Hall and College Hall on campus. University students will then seek additional donations—all of which will go to the Bluffton Area Food Pantry—during “trick or canning” in the community from 6-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 30.

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Bluffton University’s mathematics department will host its 13th annual math competition for high school students on Saturday, Nov. 8, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. All of the day’s activities are free.

The test, which begins at 9:45 a.m., includes only short-answer questions covering high school math topics through precalculus. Cash prizes will be awarded, and test scores of seniors considering attending Bluffton may be used to award renewable scholarships of up to $1,000 per year. Scholarship awards will be offered by January 2015.

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The winner of The Icon Football Contest this week is Theresa Bingman.  She correctly picked all 10 games.  

Other contestants:

9 correct - Chris Christopher, Dale Badertscher, Denny Edinger, Don Luginbuhl, Duane Bollenbacher, Ken Von Lehmden, Landyn Fleharty, Luke Amstutz, Nathan Davis, Rich Johnson, Scott Weissling, Tammy Risner and Todd Fleharty.

8 correct - Barry Schneck, Bentley Dillman, Chris Boisvert, David Glick, Jim Dillman, Kim Badertscher, Mark Delisle, Silas Amstutz and Ted Prueter.

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