FROM ADA ICON - Note: As events in Bluffton return this year, the Icon is posting those announcements on both Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon. The same goes with Ada events returning after a one-year absence. For returning events to be posted on both Icons, send details to: [email protected].
Here’s the latest on the Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival, planned for Saturday, Aug. 28.
By Tim Closson
Bluffton elementary principal This column is from the spring Bluffton school newsletter. In February we had a virtual assembly “Extreme Science.” We had some amazing demonstrations from a 700,000 Volt Van de Graff generator, vortex cannons, and a Tesla coil. This was provided by our PTO.
Youthful Bluffton will play at Elmwood Wednesday, May 19 in Div. III first round sectional baseball action. The Pirates (0-21, 0-7 NWC) were seeded 13th out of 13 teams, while Elmwood was 11th in the Elida district drawing Sunday. The winner will visit top seed Coldwater (15-5, 6-1 MAC) May 21 at 5 p.m. in the second round. Eastwood was seeded second, while Allen East (18-8, 4-3 NWC) was seeded third.
Sophomore Ethan Bogart won the 300 hurdles • Senior Simon Derstine captured first in the 800 meters • Sophomore Brianna Tabler won the girls pole vault to pace BHS
Story and photo by Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Bluffton track and field team fared well at the annual 15-team Ada Invitational on a cool but sunny Saturday at War Memorial Stadium.
Carey captured first in the girls meet with 112.33 points. Spencerville finished second with 102.5, and Van Wert came in third (99). Bluffton came in sixth out of 14 teams with 39.33 points.
The boys meet was won handily by Van Wert with 133 points. Arlington nosed out Bluffton for second, 76 to 75. Kenton and Allen East tied for fourth with 72 points.
FROM ADA ICON - Damage from this weekends rain was not limited to Bluffton. Ada Icon photographer, Ken Collins, took these three photos on Sunday afternoon in rural Ada.
It's Founders Hall at Bluffton College in the 1950s. You are viewing the Bluffton Men's Garden Club annual flower show. If you look close enough Kermit Herr is probably somewhere in the crowd.
During its day, this annual show could rival the entries in the Allen County Fair flower show.
Paul Diller took this photo and Jim Diller shares it with the Icon.
This is an essay by Fred Steiner published in Bluffton Anthology. For more information about the book click here.
It’s difficult to count how many mothers have touched one’s life. Go ahead. Try counting.
Being Mother’s Day weekend, I’ll make a feeble attempt to demonstrate what I mean. My account could be the same as your account. Only the names would change.
An artist’s rendition from 1961 examines that question more closely.
If you think nothing changes in Bluffton, think again. Here’s a bird’s-eye-view of Bluffton created 60 years ago, during the 1961 Bluffton centennial.
It shows the configuration of the village at that time.
The centennial committee also added the location of Bluffton’s first school house, a log grist mill, DeFord’s mill and the Townsend mill, which were among highlights of a centennial history tour.
By Greg Denecker
Bluffton school superintendent Note: This is from the spring school district newsletter
As we approach the end of our very different school year, I want to wish a huge congratulations to the Class of 2021.
Obviously, the end of their junior year and their senior year (as a whole) has not been normal, but they have been resilient and flexible in facing the challenges brought on by the pandemic.
