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Some thoughts on Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio gaining senior citizen status

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 18, 2010 - 5:16am

By Fred Steiner

In a manner of speaking, the Mennonite Home officially gained senior citizen status this summer. It's 55 years old. It may now join AARP.

My connection to 410 W. Elm St. is unusual: I've never lived there, but know it pretty well. My mother worked there for over a quarter of a century, first in the laundry, next as a nurse's aide, then as an LPN and finally as a resident herself.

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55th anniversary on Sunday

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 17, 2010 - 9:13pm

Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio celebrates its 55th anniversary from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. For complete details click here.

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The constitution state

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 17, 2010 - 5:01pm

Here's a plate you don't see every day, week or month in Bluffton. It's a Connecticut plate. The Icon spotted it on Main Street.

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Pandora's Riley Creek Festival Aug. 13-14

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 17, 2010 - 4:49pm

Pandora's Riley Creek Festival is Friday and Saturday, Aug. 13-14. For a complete schedule of events click here. Watch The Icon for more details in coming weeks.

Highlights of the Fest' include:

Friday

Car and antique tractor show

Carnival games for kids

Homemade ice cream

Musical "Wizard of Oz"

Saturday

5 K Run

Pancake breakfast

Bridenbaugh schoolhouse tour

Health fair

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Budgeting Boot Camp slated for August

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 17, 2010 - 11:06am

Beyond Budgeting, 119 Vine St., Bluffton, will hold a Budgeting Boot Camp on Tuesday evening sin August. The four-week course, beginning on Aug. 3, is designed to cover basic financial topics, such as:

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So, where is home?

Posted by Fred Steiner on July 17, 2010 - 10:43am

By Joanne Niswander

In a couple of weeks I will be back home.

Home in Bluffton.

But where have I really been for the past month and a half? Hasn't this house on Cape Cod been home, too? How do I explain a feeling of "place" that means more than one place?' I have felt very much "at home" here at Woods Hole. The surroundings and the people are different from those I left behind in Bluffton the first of June, but it's been home nevertheless. Some things are different, but I find many things to feel the same.

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