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Ten Thousand Villages has West Bank candleholders

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 14, 2013 - 11:04am

Ten Thousand Villages, 115 S. Main St., Bluffton, now has handcrafted Holy Land sands candleholders, according to Aphaphanh Nussbaum, manager.

The candleholders are handcrafted in the West Bank and are available for $34 each.

 

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New Leaf Christmas open house Saturday 9-5

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 14, 2013 - 10:42am

New Leaf Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235, north of Ada, will hold its Christmas open house from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16.

Open house specials include drawings for $25 gift certificates.
A Christmas decorating demonstration takes place at the Ada store from 10 a.m. to noon. Then, it is repeated at the Kenton store from 1 to 3 p.m.

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Jerry Lewis’ McDonald’s prepares to feed 3,200 on Thanksgiving Day

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 13, 2013 - 5:59pm

The Jerry Lewis’ McDonald’s Thanksgiving Day Dinner will be held on Thursday, Nov. 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lima Veteran’s Memorial Civic and Convention Center.

This year marks the ninth year for the Jerry Lewis’ McDonald’s Thanksgiving Day Dinner, which was started in 1989 by the Chester Carey Family.

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BFR wants your old shoes!

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 13, 2013 - 5:28pm

A "RePurpose your Shoes" used shoe drive is underway at BFR Sports and Fitness, 2015 Snider Road. The Bluffton center has a goal of collecting 7,500 pairs of shoes by Feb. 14. Click here for all the details, and start rounding up your discarded shoes. 

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University historian: Diary reveals ordinary Germans’ Holocaust complicity

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 13, 2013 - 5:20pm

The diary of a Jewish German woman who survived the Holocaust convincingly conveys the extent to which the Nazi regime “depended on ordinary Germans to act out its vicious anti-Semitic ideologies and policies,” according to a Bluffton University historian.

The diary of Erna Becker-Kohen further illustrates how “successfully and relentlessly” the Nazis, with considerable help from German citizens, persecuted Jews and isolated them from their neighbors and families, “before they moved on to murdering them,” said Dr. Martina Cucchiara, an assistant professor of history.

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Bluffton University
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Freed Center presents 19th annual Holiday Spectacular

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 13, 2013 - 2:48pm

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents the 19th annual Holiday Spectacular from Thursday, Nov. 21, to Saturday, Nov. 23, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a matinee performance on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m.

In addition, there will be performances at the Civic and Convention Center in Lima, Ohio, on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m.        

The show is underwritten in part by the DeBow and Catherine Freed Endowment for the Arts and Kewpee Hamburger.        

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