Thanksgiving greeting to Icon viewers from the Icon. Here are two Thanksgiving postcards from the Icon collection. The card on the left is from 1909 and the card on the right is from 1913. Both have Bluffton postmarks.
Treva Dillman Suter celebrated her 96th birthday at the Mennonite Memorial Home on Thursday, November 27 with her children, Marylin (Richard) Basinger, Jim Dillman and Diane (Jim) Elshire. Treva was born in Putnam County to Willis and Martha Basinger. She had four brothers: Vernon, Emory, Gerald, and Leland Basinger.
Treva retired from Triplett Corporation and received a watch for 25 years of service. She is a member of the First Mennonite Church, Bluffton, Ohio, and was active in their women's guild. She is also a charter member of the Progressive Mother's Club.
The annual Texas Roadhouse Restaurant holiday fundraiser is now underway
at BFR Sports & Fitness. Gift Cards with values of $15, $25, and $50 are
on hand in limited supply; large orders can be handled on a pre-paid basis
and picked up at the Bluffton facility.
BFR receives 10% of the total value of sales; gift card purchases at the Lima store can also be applied to BFR’s fundraiser. Cards will be available through December 23, 2014.
The cards may be used at any Texas Roadhouse restaurant in the United States.
Those freezing temperatures earlier this month blossomed into temperatures in the 50s and 60s in the past seven days.
Here’s the November weather summary as of Nov. 24 from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. The information is in the attachment at the bottom of this story.
December is a busy time at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.
This month's dinner meeting is at 11 a.m., Monday, Dec. 8. It is free to members, but registration is required by Dec. 3. The meal is catered by Richland Manor and the program is Bingo.
During November and December, the Center is open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
Bridge Home Health and Hospice will present a program "Stress from the Holidays." The program is Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 12:30 p.m. A potluck lunch takes place at noon. The program is open to the public.
