FROM ADA ICON - It doesn’t matter who wins this year’s NFL Super Bowl.
Everyone wins at the party in Ada on Super Bowl Eve. It’s Saturday, Feb. 3. The party is the second annual Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival.
Meanwhile, Super Bowl LII takes place in U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minn.
Ada’s Feb. 3 festival celebrates Ada’s Wilson Football Factory, sole supplier of footballs for the NFL, and Ada as the football-making Capital of the World.
Like last year, the event ends with a large football drop at midnight in the Ada railroad park.
Bluffton Hospital Auxiliary offers one-of-a-kind holiday treats while supplies last. Available at the hospital gift shop are Blazing Rods. They are holiday-themed chocolate covered pretzels available for a suggested donation of three for $5. Proceeds benefit the Women's Center of Bluffton Hospital.
Nolan R. Younkman, 88 of Punta Gorda, Florida, and formerly of Lafayette, Ohio, died Dec. 14, 2017, at Tidewell Hospice in Port Charlotte, Florida. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services in Bluffton.
Rev. Karol Farris will celebrate her first Christmas as a pastor later this month.
This fall, Rev. Farris accepted the call as pastor of Bluffton Presbyterian Church. Her pastorate began in September and she was installed in November.
As a first-time pastor, she describes her position as an “on-going balancing act.”
Students at Bluffton Middle School have collected non-perishable goods for the Bluffton Food Pantry since November, according to Robin Ault, middle school teacher.
On Wednesday morning Bluffton University baseball team members picked up the items collected and delivered them to the food pantry at St. John's UCC.
Each of the grades, 6-8 had a goal of 500 items, but all exceeded this goal. The 6th grade collected 517, 7th grade collected 1,012, and 8th grade donated 982 items. This is a grand total of 2,511 items.
Bluffton Farmers' Market vendors held their annual Christmas gathering, a carry-in dinner with a side of business on Dec. 12.
Some 40 vendors and family members enjoyed a delicious meal that included many homegrown and homemade foods, discussed the 2017 market season and made a donation to the community that hosts them.
Vendors expressed their appreciation for Citizens National Bank, which provides the parking lot space used by the market at 102 S. Main St.