Bluffton Middle School Student Senate participated in decorating a tree that will go up for auction during the Festival of Trees at Community Health Professionals in Ada next week.
Students, from left, Faith Combs, Adanna Johnstone, Ella Armstrong, Leah Klinger, Gabe Meza, Christine McCafferty (senate advisor), Olivia Smallcombe, Amy Jebsen, Jack Hohenbrink (behind Amy), Rylee Setzer and Carter Hohenbrink. In front, Izzy Stechschulte and Asa Clingerman.
Mara Drue Minnig, senior, is the October Bluffton High School student of the month.
She is a member of Latin Club, Renaissance, Drama Club and is in the Show Choir.
She competed on the BHS golf team the past four years and this spring plans to play softball again for the Bluffton Pirates. She has been active in dance for numerous years at Debbie's Dancers Elite where she also volunteers with the younger students.
Bluffton’s man-about-town Charles Hilty blew out 84 candles on election day, Nov. 6.
To hear him tell it, his birth was an American political omen. After considering the following, you may have to agree.
“I was born 15 minutes before the 1934 mid-term polls opened,” he says. “My birth marked the very bottom of the Great Depression for the Republican Party.”
Adding that when born there were only 88 Republicans among the 432 members of Congress (48 states in 1934), representing the largest-ever congressional majority for the Democrats in U.S. history.
Mark Suderman of Bluffton, will talk about Habitat for Humanity at the Lima Rotary Club. The talk is at noon, Monday, Nov. 12. The club meets in the Veterans Civic Center, Lima.
Suderman is volunteer coordinator for the Lima office, 550 W. Elm St.
U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in health care rankings, has named Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, to its 2018-19 “Best Nursing Homes” list.
This year, 2,975 nursing homes earned the designation by being rated High Performing in either Short-Stay Rehabilitation or Overall ratings and at least Average in the other.
The U.S. News & World Report website reports that on any given morning this year, roughly 1.4 million individuals, including 1 in 10 individuals age 85 and above, will wake up in a U.S. nursing home.
