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A fun mid-winter family event

The biggest Bluffton PTO event of the year, Bakery Bingo is Saturday in the Middle School Cafetorium. 

Doors will open at 5 p.m. and Bingo will begin at p.m.  

PTO members say, "Please bring your family for this fun night of entertainment.  Bingo cards are 12 for $1.  Refreshments include pizza, popcorn, pretzels, nachos and cheese, chips and water.  If you would like to help volunteer for this event please contact Crystal Camper."

 

Denny Dorrell, Bluffton University football coach, on coaches panel

FROM ADA ICON - Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival.

That has a local ring to it. And on Saturday, Ada celebrates with a Super Bowl Eve party, link none ever seen here.

Events include everything from a tailgate party, football coaches panel, free showing of "Friday Night Lights," a program looking at Super Bowl TV commercials, lots of games and Wilson NFL football raffles and concluding with a midnight football drop.

Featured on cable TV's Treehouse Masters

How’s your backyard tree house?

Bluffton builder Cory Pinks went out on a limb to fix a tree house in Findlay. Next thing you know, he’s featured on Treehouse Masters, on cable, shown on the Animal Planet Network tonight (Friday, Feb. 3) at 10 p.m.

Pinks, of CPC Contracting, Bluffton, and Richard Watkins of 1st Class Siding, Harrod, were selected from 871 entries to create a complete, top-to-bottom, renovation of an old tree house in Findlay.

Bruce N. Marshall, 68, of Hartford, Connecticut, and formerly of Bluffton died Feb. 1, 2017, while on hospice at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hartford, Connecticut, after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Bruce was born Dec. 12, 1948, in Bluffton to Kimmel and Maxine (Cook) Marshall who preceded him in death.

He completed many wood working projects in the community

Harvey Myers Bauman, 96, died Feb. 1, 2017, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.  Harvey was born Nov. 27, 1920, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to the late Henry and Annie (Myers) Bauman.  On May 28, 1944, he married Pauline Sprunger Bauman who preceded him in death on Sept. 3, 2015.

14-4 overall BHS defeated Allen East 58-40

Bluffton High School girls deafeated Allen East 58-40 in a Northwest Conference basketball game tonight. The Pirates move to 14-4, 6-0 in NWC. The Pirates were led by Alivia Koenig with 13 points.

Attached are the box scores

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