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.
The sun is out today, but the temperatures are still in the teens. Here's what things looked like earlier this week after one and-half inches of snow fell. Jason Diller is the Icon's snow-blowing poster boy.
Bluffton native David Beer, a member of faculty of Malone University, Canton, recently edited a book on the essays and lectures of Charles Norris Cochrane.
Title: Augustine and the Problem of Power
Subtitle: The Essays and Lectures of Charles Norris Cochrane
Beer describes Cochrane, who died in 1945, as an under-appreciated thinker of the last century responding to the political and spiritual crises that confronted Western civilization.
