As a sometimes impulse shopper, cranberries call me from their seasonal spot on the grocery shelf usually in mid-December. This year I answered the call.
But, because cranberries grow up in a bog you don’t just pop them into your mouth like candy or popcorn. They apparently need to be baked to eliminate the bog effect.
And unless you act decisively, the bag of berries ends up in the back of the ‘frig until Easter.
Not this year.
Visions of a cranberry-based pie danced in my head as I held the two-cup bag of Michigan bog boys.
Robert D. Fleming, 73, died on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, at 12:28 a.m. at Otterbein Cridersville Nursing Home, Criderville, Ohio.
He was born on Sept. 20, 1943, in Bluffton, Ohio to Gerald R. and Dorothy J. (Smith) Fleming who preceded him in death. On Nov. 1, 1963, Robert married Linny K. Plate and she survives in LaFayette.
Village and ODOT officials met in the Bluffton town hall on Dec. 12. The meeting's purpose was safety concerns at the Main Street and College Avenue intersection. Several portions of videos of traffic were shown. On the screen is a photo of the intersection. CLICK FOR A VIDEO.
Nearly 20 interested Bluffton residents and village officials met in the town hall with three Ohio Department of Transportation representatives on Dec. 12. The meeting lasted nearly 90 minutes.
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ODOT representatives included Kirk Slusher, District 1 deputy director, Matt Rosebrock, District 1 planning and engineering, and Rod Maas, District 1 planning and engineering.
It took 11 rounds and came down “cavalcade” for Nicole Boyle, Bluffton seventh grader, to repeat as the middle school spelling bee champion for the second year in a row.
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The bee, held Dec. 13, included 14 contestants from grades six, seven and eight.
Runner-up, who continued head-to-head with Nicole for five rounds, is Elizabeth Bourassa, eighth grader.
As the remaining two contestants, Elizabeth misspelled the musical instrument “lyre.” Nicole then spelled “austere,” and “cavalcade” correctly to win the bee.
NOTE: Calendars are available for $20 each at Spectrum Salon, 442 N. Main St., and The Black Lab, 121 N. Main St., while supplies last. Out-of-town orders may be made to [email protected]
There’s a 2017 Bluffton calendar ready to go on your wall this Christmas.
It has some fantastic Bluffton scenes (plus some great photos taken elsewhere) all taken by Bluffton photographer Jamie Nygaard.
