Bridge Bereavement Services, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, will host a “Forever Memories” support group on Thursday, Feb. 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Hub at Birchaven Village, at 15100 Birchaven Lane, Findlay.
Persons who have experienced the death of a loved one can find support in one another while creating a 12-inch by 12-inch memory frame to honor a deceased loved one’s life and relationship.
Richard Johnson of Bluffton is the winner of the Icon's Super Bowl contest.
He picked Kansas City to defeat San Francisco by 11 to 14 points. Two other contestants also picked Kansas City by 11 to 14. Those contestants were Joel Groman and Eugene Haywood.
Johnson won the tie-breaker by predicting that San Francisco would be the first team to score. Groman and Haywood picked Kansas City as the first team to score.
The contest had 52 entries and 25 picked Kansas City to win.
By Cort Reynolds
KENTON - The Ada girls swim team won a dual meet at local rival Kenton last Tuesday night at the Hardin County YMCA to finish their regular season on a high note.
The Lady Bulldog swimmers dunked the Wildcat girls, while Kenton beat the Bulldogs boys.
Several Ada swimmers touched first in their events, with four winning a pair of races.
Lady Bulldog senior standout Klava Katayama captured first in the 100-yard butterfly and in the 50 freestyle.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada girls basketball team was seeded 10th out of 14 teams at the St. Marys/Bath Div. IV super sectional drawing held by conference call Sunday afternoon.
The Lady Bulldog cagers (6-13) will take on tough fourth seed New Knoxville (12-6) Wednesday, February 19 at 6:15 p.m. at Bath.
The Ada/NK winner takes on the victor of the Feb. 19 first round Bath game between sixth seed New Bremen (10-7) and 12th seed Hardin Northern (6-13). That sectional final will be held Saturday, Feb. 22 in Bath at 8 p.m.
Top seed Ft. Recovery (13-4) received a first round bye, as did third seed Minster (15-3).
By Cort Reynolds
PAULDING - Visiting Ada rallied late to beat Paulding 57-51 in a tight Northwest Conference boys basketball contest Friday night.
Ada trailed 38-35 heading into the fourth period, but the Bulldogs outscored the Panthers 22-13 over the final eight minutes to pull off their second road win of the season.
"We made some adjustments against their zone after the third quarter break, and our guys did an awesome job of coming out and executing those adjustments," explained Ada fourth-year head coach Dre White.
That "pigskin's" from Ada. Wilson's sent 108 made-in-Ada Super Bowl footballs to the San Francisco 49ers and to the Kansas City Chiefs last week. The arrow points to one of those balls in the screen shot taken from ESPN Twitter during the first quarter of tonight's Super Bowl.
