Sarah Thompson, 2018 Generations Fellow, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, will present Bluffton University’s 2018 Keeney Peace Lecture during the Jan. 30 Forum, “From Charlottesville to Congo to Cleveland: The State of Nonviolence,” at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University men tipped off in the Sommer Center against the Manchester Spartans on a cold Wednesday, Jan. 17. The Beavers pulled off a 71-66 win over the Spartans, improving to 8-8 overall (5-4 HCAC) with their third straight victory, while the visitors fell to 2-14 on the season (0-9 HCAC).
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. - The Bluffton University women's basketball squad hit the road to take on the Manchester University Spartans in a Wednesday night affair. The teams went back and forth, but the Beavers would end up coming home with the 62-59 victory, improving to 12-4 (7-2 HCAC), while MU slipped to 4-12 and 3-6 in the conference.
As the NFL playoffs continue, Ada will again have its own Super Bowl extravaganza.
The second annual “Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival” on Saturday, Feb. 3, will celebrate the village of Ada’s connection to the biggest football game of the year. Ada’s Wilson Sporting Goods factory makes the footballs used in the Super Bowl, and the day’s events will again capture that theme, leading up to a “football drop” at midnight on the cusp of Super Bowl Sunday.
Owen Weaver, 10, died at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Melvena M. Lewis, 98, of Bluffton passed away in her sleep at 12:40 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. She was born March 4, 1919, in Bluffton to the late Ameiel and Sylvia (Moser) Amstutz.
Melvena married her high school sweetheart Richard “Dutch” Lewis after his enlistment in World War II and at the war’s end they had one daughter, Joan R. Lewis.
