Saturday marks the second annual Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival. It celebrates this community's creation of NFL footballs used in the Super Bowl on Sunday in Minneapolis. A schedule of events is in the story below. A midnight football drop highlights the celebration.
The Super Bowl is in Minneapolis - but a Saturday event, an Ada football drop, celebrates this community's connection to the larger world of sports.
The Saturday midnight football drop launches Super Bowl LII, in the hearts of Ada residents.
The second annual “Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival” on Saturday, Feb. 3, will celebrate the village of Ada’s connection to the biggest football game of the year.
Ada Rotarian Bob Ward, and his wife, Karen, may be in Florida right now but they haven't left Rotary behind. During a Rise Against Hunger event organized by a local Rotary group, they helped package 30,000 meals for children in Nicaragua with about 250 volunteers at the Fernandina Beach Rec Center. Bob, a retired engineering prof, sports an ONU t-shirt, while helping. Karen is active in civic and religious activities in Ada.
ADA - Visiting Spencerville used balanced scoring and a big first half to defeat Ada 68-39 in Northwest Conference girls basketball play Thursday night.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 4-14 overall and 0-6 in conference play with a fifth straight defeat in their home finale. Meanwhile, the Lady Bearcats improved to 10-7 and remain tied for first in the NWC with the win at 5-1.
After a slow start for both teams, Spencerville rolled to an 18-4 lead en route to a 33-10 halftime bulge, and never was headed.
Phillip Barttels, 79, off Ada was taken by LifeFlight to St. Rita’s Hospital following an accident at SR 235 and 309 on Wednesday afternoon. The hospital staff labeled his condition as stable on Thursday evening.
The Sheriff’s department reported that Battels was driving a 2013 Ford Fusion north on SR 235 when the driver lost control, struck the guardrail of a bridge, began to roll, and landed in a nearby creek. Battels was extricated from the vehicle and flown to the Lima hospital.
The crash remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.
This penguin needs a haircut. Ada first graders are learning about penguins...and may know more about the tuxedo-dressed-looking bird than do most adults. How many eggs do they lay, what do they eat, who are their enemies? Ask a first graders, they’ll know. Their drawings of penguins are displayed on a wall at the Ada Schools. (Answers: 2; small fish and krill; orca whales and leopard seals.) (Monty Siekerman photos)
