Few things are as American as football, except perhaps the northwestern Ohio village that produces the pigskins used in the biggest game of the year.
In a real slice of Americana, a small town and its connection to the Super Bowl will be celebrated during the “Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival” on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Here's the Wilson football that will drop at midnight, Saturday, Feb. 4, in the Ada Depot. Members of the event planning committee, from left, Wynn Hauenstein, Fred Steiner, Chris Burns DiBiaiso, David Dellifield, Amy Eddings and David Retterer. Absent are Dean Paul and Shane Tilton.
Ada Public Library provides several opportunities for book reading and discussion this winter. Here's the Adult Book Group and Amish Book Group schedule and book topics. Contact the library about joining these groups.
ADULT BOOK GROUP
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.
1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio.
They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property.
The Ada Kiwanis Club will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at noon in the Dean's Heritage Room, McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University. Special guest will be a representative from Blanchard Valley Hospital, Bluffton campus, to discuss the Bluffton Hospital's Women' Center.
The lacrosse team went 8-7 in up its inaugural season last year. The first home match this year will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25. (Photo by Trevor Jones)
