Ada council has some New Year appointments to make at its first meeting of 2016, slated for 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 4.
Among those decisions is selecting a council president and seven committee chairs:
• Finance
• Street
• Building/grounds
• Safety
• Personnel
• Utility
• Economic development
Plus, council members will chose representatives to the ambulance board, planning commission, negotiation committee enterprise zone and enterprise review committee.
All this is in addition to the regular agenda, which is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Alexandra Boyadzhiev, Ada High School senior, like to drink tea.
So, in art class, she decided to create her on tea strainers. She says that she got the idea from tea strainers she saw in the Ten Thousand Villages shop in Bluffton. Here's a view of three of the strainer as a work in progress.
The photo below show Alexandra working on one of the strainers.
M. Basketball - Lost 67-79 at Denison; Lost 72-78 H v Trine (Ind.)
#23 W. Basketball - Won 72-51 H v Case Western Reserve; Won 80-43 at Ohio Wesleyan
Wrestling - at U. of Chicago (Ill.) Duals; Won 22-15 at U. of Chicago (Ill.); Lost 20-24 at Dubuque (Iowa); Won 27-11 v Trine (ind.)
#37 M. Swimming & Diving - Idle
W. Swimming & Diving - Idle
This Week's Schedule:
Wednesday
#23 Women's Basketball - at Mount Union, 7:30 pm
PART OF BLANCHARD VALLEY
MEDICAL PRACTICES
Robert Schutz, MD, has joined Bluffton Women’s Care, 559 Harmon Road, Bluffton, part of Blanchard Valley Medical Practices.
Dr. Schutz provides obstetrics and gynecological care, and is accepting new and existing patients. He is joined at Bluffton Women’s Care by his longtime associates certified nurse midwives Tonya Fenzl and Shirley Cole.
Stratton Minix, 81, died on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, at 11:54 a.m. at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima.
He was born on Jan. 6, 1934, in Breathitt County, Kentucky, to Bill and Laura (Watkins) Minix and they preceded him in death. He was raised by Leander and Laura Rowe. Stratton married Bonnie L. Burris on Dec. 31, 1982, and she survives in Alger.
Stratton retired in 1999 after 35 years from Ford Motor Company, Lima as a stock handler. He was a life member of the McGuffey Conservation Club. He was affiliated with the Baptist Church.
Q: How many individuals viewed the Ada Icon in 2015?
A: Would you believe 42,684? That’s the answer, according to Google Analytics.
The analytic program tracks more statistics that we know what to do with. Needless to say, it reveals lots of significant information.
We’d like to share some of our 2015 facts and figures with viewers. For starters, those 42,684 viewers clicked on the Icon almost 100,000 times, or an average of a little over 8,000 total visits each month.
