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May 2018

A flower show for children and teens

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Deep Roots Garden Club will present “Reading Rocks: Junior Flower Show” at the Alger Public Library on Thursday, June 28. The flower show is open to all children who will be under the age of 18. Contact the library for additional information.

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Alger Library summer reading program

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Alger Library summer reading program kickoff will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5 with Dr. Ooze and his Totally Gross Magic Show.

Dr Ooze has created magic at its grossest with strange noises, slimy green stuff, and foot fungus. To be chosen as one of Dr. Ooze’s helpers during the show, create a sign that says “Pick Me.”

 Additional information about the summer reading program, including a calendar of events, will be available at the kickoff. Children, teens and adults are welcome to participate in the program. Check out the library’s Facebook page or website at algerlibrary.org.

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The Cadets are coming

150 musicians, support staff of 35 arrive Friday in Ada
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, May 30, 2018

By Monty Siekerman
Once again, music will fill the air in Ada as the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps returns to Ada for the fourth summer.

The Cadets, which placed 7th in the World Class category last year, will bring 150 musicians and a support staff of 35 people when they arrive here on Friday.

The Cadets practice in small groups during the mornings and afternoons and as a group from 7-9 p.m. each evening in the stadium to prepare for tough competition in shows they give from Coast to Coast all summer long.

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Mercy Health – Ada Family Medicine now provides walk-in hours

Modays through Fridays
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, May 30, 2018

 Mercy Health – Ada Family Medicine now provides walk-in hours for medical care for wellness needs.
 
Jenelle Niese, CNP, joined by new provider, Teresa Rush, FNP, are committed to providing quality care to all members of the family, without a prior appointment. 

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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

March 1936 State Route 81 was extended from Ada to Lima.

April 2, 1936 The Ada Business Association was formed. Ben Focht organizer, Earl Wolfrom president, George Greer vice-president, Robert C. Cole and R.C. Harris, vice presidents; Kahler, Pfeiffer, secretary; Dana Welsh, treasurer; Barton Snyder, Stewart Main, George Conn, Harry Huffman and J.R. Gibson, directors. More than 50 members signed up.

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Icon dog of the week - Athena

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Meet Athena. She is a ten month old female lab mix. Athena weighs 44 pounds and is available now. Can you give her a forever home?

To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.

Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.

Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.

The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.

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Kelley Lewis receives Catherine Freed award

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Kelley Lewis of Bellefontaine has received the 2018 Catherine Freed Outstanding Senior Female Leadership and Service Award from Ohio Northern University. Lewis, who attended Bellefontaine High School, graduated from ONU this spring with a bachelor’s degree in literature and creative writing.

 

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They came from Ada and Liberty Township

They are our Civil War veterans
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Here is the list of Civil War veterans from Ada and Liberty Township who have bricks with their names on the Railroad Park memorial.

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Dedication of the memorial bricks

Remarks by John Phillip Lomax, May 28, 2018
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Dedication of the Memorial Bricks
at the Civil War Monument in Ada, Ohio,
on Memorial Day, May 28, 2018
Remarks
John Phillip Lomax

In his book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, James McPherson delved deeply into the letters and daily journals of Civil War soldiers in search of the motives that led them to leave their homes and march into battle.  He found them quite able to state their reasons for fighting. 

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For a moment Ada revisits the 1860s

83 inscribed bricks honor Union soldiers from Ada
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Click for list of veterans who are named on bricks
Click for remarks presented by Dr. Lomax

Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Unlike wartime, Ada Railroad Park was a peaceful place on Monday morning when Civil War veterans from Ada and Liberty Township were remembered in a service organized by Dr. John Lomax, an ONU history professor who retired earlier this month.

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