The Thursday, Jan. 4, community meal planned at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center is cancelled. Tonya Meyer, center director, said the cancellation is due to the low tempeatures anticipated to continue this week. The dinner will not be rescheduled.
Bluffton Senior Citizens Association announces it winter session of Our Version of Adult Learning (OVAL) classes, according to Tonya Meyer, director.
The following classes are held at the Senior Center, 132 N. Main St., and are free (except Feb. 5 class with a pre-registration and fee) and open to the public.
Thursday, Jan. 11 – 9:30 a.m. – Bob Gordon-Hancock, “How the credit card banking industry works.”
FROM ADA ICON - It doesn’t matter who wins this year’s NFL Super Bowl.
Everyone wins at the party in Ada on Super Bowl Eve. It’s Saturday, Feb. 3. The party is the second annual Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival.
Meanwhile, Super Bowl LII takes place in U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minn.
Ada’s Feb. 3 festival celebrates Ada’s Wilson Football Factory, sole supplier of footballs for the NFL, and Ada as the football-making Capital of the World.
Like last year, the event ends with a large football drop at midnight in the Ada railroad park.
On Monday three concerts take place. Here’s the schedule:
• 1:30 p.m. – Elementary Christmas concert
This concert features Kindergarteners through fifth graders. Selections will be by each grade and will also include a mass choir of all elementary singers. This concert is in the high school gymnasium.
Transition Bluffton is hosting a skill sharing event in which experts in a variety of crafts will share their knowledge with others interested in learning a new skill.
The event is open to the public at no charge and will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. in the third floor meeting room of the Bluffton town hall.
Experts have been lined up to teach such skills as knitting, sock darning, knife sharpening, waste-free gift wrapping, bicycle flat tire repair, and mending with Sugru.
Bluffton celebrates an old-fashioned Christmas this weekend with several options.
• Swiss Community Historical Society open house
• Riley Creek Christmas old-time tour
Swiss Homestead open house
The Bluffton/Pandora Community Swiss Historical Christmas open house,
"Christmas at the Homestead will be held on from 2 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2,
the Schumacher Homestead.
The public is invited to tour the decorated 1843 house while snacking on homemade treats and listening to songs of the season.
