Little-known fact: Most of the marketing efforts of the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern University take place in Bluffton.
That's because, Anita Cook, independent contractor and marketing manager of the Center, lives in Bluffton. She creates most of her work from the office in her home on North Main Street, located just north of Groves Quality Collectibles.
Owner of Maestro Graphics, Cook is a freelance graphic artist, and her work with The Freed Center is one of the many multi-tasking positions she balances quite well.
A jogger with an iPod or a family walking a dog may be regularly seen in Bluffton-not "college students walking back to campus drunk after hitting the bars."
I would know. I am a senior at Bluffton University and have called it home for three years now. Majoring in English and Writing, it was hard for me to read such a biased story in Friday's Lima News.
The words and assumptions that were published in the article about a Bluffton student assault were hurtful to the university and community.
Hazel Marie Austin, 93, of Bluffton died at 9:05 a.m., March 25, 2012 at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born March 1, 1919, near Lafayette, to John Henry and Marie Howe Klingler. In 1945 she married Robert Austin and he preceded her in death in 1998.Mrs. Austin retired from the Chrysler Jeep Corp., Toledo. She attended Ebenezer Mennonite Church, Bluffton.
Note: Peter Martin is a 2006 Bluffton graduate with a BA degree in Business Administration. Jenna Liechty Martin is a 2007 Bluffton graduate with a BA in Business Administration. This story appeared in the February 2012 edition of Beyond Ourselves, a publication of Mennonite Mission Network.
Thirty Bluffton University students spent their recent spring break in Chicago, but they weren't in the Windy City to see its tourist attractions.
From March 4-9, the students-from the campus group SERVE-divided into small groups and worked in inner-city neighborhoods at soup kitchens, churches, nursing homes, outreach centers and a children's after-school program, among other locations.
