Erma M. Arnold, 90, died at Richland Manor Nursing Home, Bluffton, at 5:45 a.m., Dec. 3, 2009. She was born March 3, 1919, to John D. and Josie Shaffer Miller in Monroe Township, Allen County. On Nov. 23, 1936, she married Arthur Arnold and he survives.
Jack Michael Faine, 56 of McKinney, Texas, and formerly of Mt. Cory, Ohio, passed away Nov. 25, 2009.
He was born on March 29, 1953, in Bluffton to John A. and Deane Wells Faine. His mother survives in Mt. Cory. He married June "Tina" (Nelson) Faine and she survives in McKinney, Texas.
He was a 1971 graduate of Cory-Rawson High School. He was also a veteran of the Vietnam Conflict serving in the U.S. Navy.
Dr. Kay Soltesz, family and consumer sciences department chair at Bluffton University, is the newly-elected president of the Ohio Board of Dietetics for 2010.
Soltesz was appointed to the board in 2006 by Governor Bob Taft for a five-year term. She will officially take office on Jan. 1, 2010.
Two Monday evening holiday concerts and one Monday afternoon concert are planned in December by Bluffton school musical groups. The evening concerts are held in the middle school cafetorium. The elementary afternoon concert is held in the new BHS gym.
The concert schedule follows:
Monday, Dec. 7:
6 p.m. - Middle school choir
7:30 p.m. - Middle school band/strings
Breanna Hamilton, 18, and a senior at Bluffton High School, is the BHS November student of the month.
She carries a 4.0 grade point average, is active in Math Club, the Math Team, Art Club, Latin Club, SADD and is on the Renaissance Committee. As a junior she was class president.
