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Here's Jeanne's Kitchen weekly features

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 12, 2015 - 3:24pm

BREAKFAST and more
We are open at 8 a.m. Tuesday-Friday, and serve homemade, to-order breakfast. Lunch is served from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

We are available to cater your next event--large or small--for business or personal gatherings: weddings, rehearsal dinners, bridal showers, baby showers, birthdays, reunions or any special need.

Call Jeanne at 419-234-8650 for information or with any questions.

LUNCH SPECIALS for January 13-16

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Conrad Grebel president Tuesday forum speaker

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 11, 2015 - 10:44pm

Dr. Susan Schultz Huxman, president of Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario, will consider the future of Christian liberal arts education during a Bluffton University forum on Tuesday, Jan. 13.

Her presentation, “Planting Seeds of Faithfulness: Why Christian Liberal Arts Education (Still) Matters,’’ is free and open to the public beginning at 11 a.m. in Bluffton’s Founders Hall.

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Here's a quick reminder of where all those NFL footballs come from...it's Ada, Ohio

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 11, 2015 - 10:37pm

It's down to four teams: Green Bay, New England, Seattle and Indianapolis.

But no matter who makes the trip to the Super Bowl, Ada will in on every play. Wilson Football recently created a brief video of the Ada Wilson factory.

Click now to view the video.

Maybe you are in the video - or know someone who is.

Every NFL game ball that's appeared in Super Bowl competition has been made at the Wilson Football Factory in Ada.

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Bluffton's thundering herd

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 11, 2015 - 9:13pm

A herd of over 25 deer spent some time Sunday afternoon in the Del and Susie Gratz field on Augsburger Road. As a point of interest, this proves there are more deer in the Bluffton Pandora community than there were when our ancestors were first here. From "Life in Bluffton and Pandora Community 1877-1910" compiled by Edgar Schumaher, comes this brief account from the Nov. 19, 1896, Bluffton News: "A deer was killed near Putnam County line and the Blanchard River.