The employees at Mennonite Home Health and Senior Services are joining home health care providers across Ohio and the nation in marking November as National Home Care and Hospice Month.
“Home care allows patients to be cared for in the comfort of their own homes, regardless of their medical condition, so that they can be close to their loved ones,” said Kathy Rode R.N., Director of Mennonite Home Health and Senior Services.
Maple Crest did it again. It enticed the area's best pie bakers to show off their pie-baking skills during the Nov. 9 pie baking contest. Here's the results. (Watch for a video.)
Best of show
Coconut cream – Alice Leonard
Fruit pies
1st – Apple crisp – Becky Luginbill
2nd – Strawberry rhubarb – Teresa Schaub
3rd – Dutch Apple – Vickie Frysinger
The next Maple Crest Senior Living, Bluffton, Sunday buffet is Nov. 11, according to Daren Lee, director of Maple Crest.
The menu includes:
• Apricot glazed turkey breast
• Ham
• Sweet potato casserole
• Mixed vegetables
• Cranberry bread
• Pumpkin pie
• Coffee and iced tea.
With the 2012 presidential election fresh in our minds, here's a description how Bluffton watched the 1916 presidential election. This is a reprint from the book "A Good Place to Miss: Bluffton Stories 1900-1975." The person telling the story is Milt Sprunger.
Maple Crest Senior Living Village, Bluffton, will hold a pie-baking contest on Friday, Nov. 9. The contest takes place at Maple Crest, 700 Maple Crest Court, just off Augsburger Road.
Pies to be judged must be delivered to Maple Crest by 2 p.m. on Nov. 9. Judging takes place at 3:30 p.m. in the Patio Room. All who enter must bring two pies of the same recipe. One pie is for judging, the second pie is for a silent auction.
