Dr. James M. Harder, president of Bluffton University, will present the annual President’s Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Founders Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Harder will offer perspectives on the start of a new academic year—Bluffton’s 114th—and describe several institutional initiatives for the year. This is also the 100th year since Bluffton adopted its longstanding motto, “The Truth Makes Free,” and the president will reflect on what that means in the context of a Bluffton education.
Members of the English Lutheran Church participate in the AmazingRACE Week of Service this week. On Sunday, for example, members (in gold and black t-shirts) participated in several clean up projects in Bluffton. "Here at English Lutheran we decided to turn the original one-day event into a week-long "servant race" in which teams will be commissioned and sent out after worship on Sept.
First Mennonite "Mennonite Women" will hold their first meeting of the fall at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 16, in the church fellowship hall.
Greg and Synthia Arnette of Findlay will tell about WeServe.coffee, a coffee shop in Findlay that has 100 percent of its profits going to local and global charities.
Water Equipment League
Scores bowled on: Sept 3
High Game
Jim Thorbin 267
Mike Barrows 266
Denny Caskie 259
Tom Cole 248
Todd Basinger 245
Terry Otto 237
Jon Burden 237
The Bluffton University's men's and women's cross country teams headed south to the greater Cincinnati area to compete in the Queen City Invitational 5k race. The meet was hosted by the Division 1 trio of Xavier University, University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. All together there were 15 teams and 300 competitors that toed the line on Friday, Sept. 7.
The replacement of the shingles on the Bluffton town hall clock tower roof came to a sudden halt last week, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
“Frost Roofing was able to get the layer of shingles off, but discovered that a layer of asbestos shingles was under that layer,” said Mehaffie.
“These shingles were not able to be detected prior to the removal of the top layer. As environmental regulations have changed since the roof was last re-shingled, we have no choice but to have the asbestos shingles properly removed and disposed of,” he added.