Maple Crest Senior Living Village will host a soup cook-off from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1, and the public is invited, according to Daren Lee of Maple Crest.
Lee said: Come to the Patio Room in the lower level of the Maple Crest main building and sample gourmet soups prepared by different local restaurants and caterers. Enjoy such soups as:
Quiz bowl season has begun for 5th and 6th graders. This year all matches will be held at Shawnee Middle School. Bluffton will be sending the following students:
Maple Crest, Bluffton senior living retirement community, last week officially welcomed nine new residents through a party titled “Welcome in the New Year Baby!”
Dr. Oliver Lugibihl opened the event with several poems about the seasons and surprised everyone at the end of his speech by providing two bottles of old-fashioned Sassafras Tea for the refreshment time.
Larry Burkhalter, on the violin, and Joanne Niswander, accompanying on piano, provided entertainment, beginning with “Cradle-Song” by Johannes Brahms (in keeping with the baby theme).