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.
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.
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.
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.
It's approaching its third year, and it is already a Bluffton household name: Ride To Remember.
This year's popular Bluffton bicycle ride takes place on Saturday, July 8, and lots of information about this year's event is on the Ride's website: www.ridetoremember.net.
An initial planning meeting took place in late January and event planners hope to have up to 200 riders participate this year.
The first year (2015) had 100 riders. Last year's ride attracted 150 riders.
