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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 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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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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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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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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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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