Note: Earlier this week The Icon announced the winners of Maple Crest's soup cook-off of March 6. This post includes photos not shown in the original story. Here, you'll see each of the competitors and a summary of the event.
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It's official: Luke's Bar and Grill's white bean and ham soup is the winner.
Two hundred hungry Bluffton soup-eaters attended and 170 voted at Maple Crest's eight soup cookoff on Thursday.
The winner was Luke’s Bar & Grill (Bluffton), with white bean and ham soup.
For the first time ever, there was a tie for second place by Henry’s, of Ottawa, with cream of broccoli and Jeanne’s Kitchen (Bluffton) with butternut squash soup.
Touches from the Heart of Glandorf took third place with white corn chowder.
The next Maple Crest Senior Living, 700 Maple Court, Bluffton, Sunday buffet is March 16, according to Daren Lee, director of Maple Crest.
The menu includes:
• Corned beef and cabbage with carrots and potatoes
• Herbed pork roast
• Sweet potato casserole
• Sauteed fresh squash and zucchini
• Dinner rolls
• Cherry 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.
Bluffton High School art student Nicole Edelbrock won first place in printmaking at this year's 26th annual Kewpee High School Art Invitational currently on exhibit at ArtSpace/Lima, according to Vicki Garmon, BHS art teacher.
Edelbrock's print is titled "Andy's Print." Eight Bluffton students have works in the juried show. In addition to Edelbrock, those students are:
Jessica Liska is currently student teaching 8th grade math and 7th grade language arts. She is the daughter of David and Susan Liska, 8433 Phillips Rd, Bluffton.
On the Ohio Northern University campus, Liska has been active in the Association for Supervision and Curriculum development, Kappa Delta Pi, Delta Zeta National sorority, Mortar Board, Alpha Lamb Delta and Phi Eta Sigma.
Ohio nursing home and assisted living residents are generally satisfied with the care they receive, according to the results of the 2013 Long-term Care Resident Satisfaction Survey, released by the Ohio Department of Aging.
Maple Crest Senior Living Village, part of Mennonite Communities of Ohio (MHCO) in Bluffton, scored a 97.6 (out of a possible 100), which ranked it in the top 25 in the State of Ohio out of 598 assisted living facilities that participated.
