Like chili soup? Then, you'll love Richland Manor's Thursday, Feb. 21, chili cookoff. The event, hosted by Richland Manor, 7400 Swaney Road, Bluffton, starts at 6:30 p.m.
According to Sarah Foster, administrator, admission is free and there is a voluntary donation to assist the Cairo Food Bank.
A board of judges will choose the winning chili recipie and will award three top prizes:
First place - $100 Visa gift card
Second place - $75 Visa gift card
Third place - $50 Visa gift card
Bluffton University’s multicultural affairs office will host a soul food dinner at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in The Commons in Marbeck Center.
Cost is $9 for the dinner plus a presentation that will follow at 6 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
The program is scheduled to include performances by open-mic poet Xplicit and of the Langston Hughes poem “Negro Mother” by Janine King of Cleveland, and a stomp show by members of the Bowling Green State University chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Courtnee Morris of Bluffton stands in front of an octopus he painted for the child care room at BFR Sports and Fitness Center, Bluffton. Morris is working on an entire room mural for the center. When finished it will include animals from the jungle, the sea and land. Watch the video for a better view of the project.
One of Bluffton’s newest Main Street businesses is expanding again.
Tom and Sheena Dotson, owner of Tommy Tire, 319 N. Main St., have started a new business Tommy’s Trailer Sales. The business is located at 121 State Route 103.
“We saw a need and decided to fill it,” said Sheena.
The new business offers for sale:
• Utility trailers
• Car hauling trailers
• Dump trailers
• Landscaping trailers
• Carports
Last night, as I sat in Lima and listened to Governor John Kasich during the State of the State speech, I was amazed at how dishonest he was concerning his state budget's impact on working Ohioans.
Edith Ann (Tews) Dunbar, 87, died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 in her home in Richland Township, Allen County, Ohio. A journalist, author and playwright, a member of the Detroit Working Writers, she was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was a graduate of the University of Michigan.
She was a reporter and later Women’s Editor of the Mellus Newspaper in suburban Detroit. She was a recent resident of Bluffton, previously Northville, Michigan and earlier Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
