The next Maple Crest Senior Living, 700 Maple Court, Bluffton, Sunday buffet is Nov. 10, according to Daren Lee, director of Maple Crest.
The menu includes:
• Roasted turkey with gravy
• Caramel apple pork chop
• Sweet potato casserole
• Green beans
• Dinner rolls
• Pumpkin pie
• coffee and iced tea.
The buffet is in the Patio Room at Maple Crest from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is open to all adults 55 and older at a cost of $7.50 per person.
The Bluffton Senior Center will be hosting an informational meeting on the changes and options for Medicare, Advantage Plans, Medicare Part D and supplement insurances.
The meeting is at 11 a.m.,Thursday, Nov. 7, at the center on North Main Street.
Open enrollment ends Dec. 7 and the Bluffton Senior Center wants all senior citizens to know their options and review their plans before time runs out. The information will be presented by Webb Insurance Agency.
The next Western Ohio Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association meeting is at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, at Biggie's Coast to Coast Restaurant, 116 E. Main St., Cairo (nn the old Lincoln Highway).
After attendees order dinner individually from the menu, Michael Buettner will present a program at 7 p.m., "The Lincoln Highway and the Harding Highway in Western Ohio - The Most Colorful Chapter of the Lincoln Highway History in Ohio." The public is invited.
Institutionalized profiling of Muslims is undermining American democracy, a leader of Cleveland’s Islamic community said at Bluffton University Nov. 5.
Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, cited a 2004 Cornell University study in which 44 percent of respondents indicated acceptance of curbing the civil rights of American Muslims. But in the United States, she argued, if you curb one group’s rights, “you destroy the fabric of the Bill of Rights for everyone else.”
Who were Dorothy and Harry Ream? Did they make all those cutout displays on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn on display between Thanksgiving and New Year's? What’s their story?
Answers to those questions, for a generation of people who don’t know the Ream story, will be part of this year’s Blaze celebration. This summer, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce invited a troupe of local actors and singers to put the Ream story to drama and music.
