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David Wilson, plant controller of Wilson Football factory, Ada, gets ready to pass. He’s holding a 2019 Super Bowl football created in the Ada plant. Nearly 20 Wilson employees from Ada left for Atlanta on Friday. They will demonstrate how footballs are made. Both Super Bowl teams' special balls were sent from Ada on Jan. 21. The next photo is a close up of the ball, following by photos of other  Wilson footballs.

Will explore education as a major

High school students are invited to learn more about Bluffton University’s Educator Preparation Program, the demands and rewards of teaching, and career routes for education majors during a special event for high school juniors and seniors hosted by the Bluffton Education Organization (BEO).

Anti-Semitism, Catholicism and the Third Reich 

Dr. Martina Cucchiara, associate professor of history at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, "We Want to Become Saviors and Helpers of our Fatherland: Catholic Girls in Nazi Germany,” at 4 p.m. on Feb. 8 in Stutzman Lecture Hall.

This story is believed to be from the Lim News. Twins and triplets in the Bluffton schools taken in the 1951 school year.

Front from left, Arlene Kay and Marlene Rae Basinger; Carol, Walter and Charles Jordan; Jerry Ray and Garry Jay Althaus.

Back row from left, Rae Ann and Rachael Mae Devier; Connie Janes and Nancy Lane Patterson.

Enrolled in the Bluffton grade school are four sets of twins and one set of triplets, a record for the school. Two pairs of twins and the triplets are in the second grade.

What color is this car? Green, of course. This Chevy Astro was spotted in the ONU Sports Center parking lot last fall, coincidentally on a day with thunderstorms.

It's January, but the Festival of Wheel committee is already thinking about June.

The initial Festival of Wheels committee meeting for 2019 is at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the third floor of the town hall, according to Dan Diller, chair of the event.

 

 

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