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Several holiday-related events will unfortunately not take place this year at the Bluffton Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., according to Tonya Meyer, director.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we are canceling the party we had planned in December for our 50th anniversary, Christmas and annual meeting,” she told The Icon.

Plans are underway for a 50th anniversary celebration later.

Another event not taking place is the memorial service for members who died in the past 12 months. Those persons are listed at the bottom of this story.

There will also not be an election for new board members this year. Instead, the Center will add one year of service to the current board members’ terms.

Three members have 90th birthdays in December. Each will receive a life membership and a red rose. Those members are Richard Cass, Jean Reichenbach and Margaret Latham.

Fudge and fruitcake on sale
Due to covid-19 the Bluffton Senior Center is unable to make peanut brittle this year. But, it now offers Gethsemani Farms fudge and fruitcakes.

“Peanut brittle has always been one of the Center’s biggest fundraisers, a project that started in the early 1970s,” said Tonya Meyer, center director.

To substitute the lost income from the peanut brittle, the  Center is partnering with Gethsemani Farms in Trappist, Kentucky, to offer fudge and fruitcakes. 

Handmade in small batches since 1955 from the freshest ingredients, every morsel reflects their devotion to the Trappist rule Ora et Labora (prayer and work). 

All of the fruitcake and some of the fudge has bourbon in the recipe as the Abbey is located in Kentucky Bourbon Country. 

The half cakes sell for $21 and one pound of fudge sells for $20.50. There are four flavors of fudge: 
• Chocolate walnut 
• Kentucky bourbon butter walnut 
• Kentucky bourbon chocolate pecan  
• Mint julep chocolate bourbon fudge 

Memorial listing of members who died in the recent 12 months:
Colleen Hight
Wayne Shafer
Faye McKibben
Glennys Henry
Louis Risser
Mary Barnett
Sheryl Lugibihl
Gary Grant
Bruno Maroscher
Treva Shafer
Bob Bowersox
Paul Gossard
Catherine Bish
Treva Crawford
Ann Buller
Lynn Wolford
Helen Edinger
Anna Ruth Reichenbach
Betty Fran Henderson
Edward Rankey