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Icon book review: The Devil in the White City

This is a thickly paced book, at the speed of steam
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 10, 2020 - 6:45am

Review by Robert McCool
Welcome to the White City - Chicago in 1890-1893.

It's been a while since I've written a review, as my wife had an emergency back surgery and an extended stay in the hospital that has kept me busy doing other things than writing.

But even as immediate as my time has been recently this book has been on my mind quite a bit. Once again, it comes recommended by a member of the Ada book club, and is justified as a good read.

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So, you think you know Bluffton - the answer

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 10, 2020 - 6:16am

If you said, the public library, you are incorrect. Answer below.

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Regional news
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AMA - Ask me anything (about Covid-19)

"Why do healthy kids need to wear masks?"
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 10, 2020 - 6:04am

This Covid-19 question video series is in cooperation with Ada SAFE 2020. The series is the collective work of experts, community leaders, organizers, parents, and members of the community.

The question is: "Why do healthy kids need to wear masks?”

In the accompanying video, Dr. Anna Kauffman, MD, a physician in Family Medicine and practices in Bluffton, responds.

She received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine and completed a residency in family medicine at the VCU Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency Program.

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Faith, finances and voting

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 9, 2020 - 4:29pm

By Gary Reese
Faith Investment Services
The way we vote should reflect what we believe in.  

As Americans, we have been given the ballot box to express our values and desires for how the country is run.  The results of elections end up affecting so many aspects of our lives – our personal safety and well-being – as well as our national defense, our taxation, our ability to invest (with or without government intrusion), how we raise our families, our retirement, and more. 

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School offers lunch to go on Fridays

Pick up from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in front of middle school
Posted by Fred Steiner on September 9, 2020 - 3:19pm

Bluffton schools offers lunch to go for pickups on Fridays, as school on that day is remote this fall. Students need to sign up by Thursdays to have a Friday lunch.

Take out lunches are available on Fridays at the middle school front entrance from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Students need to go to the school website and click on district lunches at the top of the page, and then “lunch to go sign-up.”

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The voice of the garden

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 9, 2020 - 2:13pm

The hum of the bee is the voice of the garden, so we are told. Here's two bees at work on a sunflower at Bluffton Family Recreation. We understand that many of the BFR sunflowers are volunteers.

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