By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Host Ada ground out a defense-oriented 44-35 win over New Knoxville in a non-league boys basketball battle Saturday night.
The Bulldogs pulled away from a low-scoring 13-12 halftime score with a 19-7 third period burst. The purple and gold never led by less than eight points in the fourth quarter and went on to post their fourth win in five games.
Ada improved to 5-6 with the victory. NK dropped to 2-7 after their fifth consecutive loss.
Lori Thomas recently joined Vancrest Ada as its new dietary manager. She is in the featured employee of the January Vancrest newsletter.
Lori is a long-time area resident, having graduated from Allen East High School. She holds a bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of Phoenix.
Prior to joining the Vancrest staff, she was employed in dietary management for eight years at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s and for over five years at dietary manager at Lima Memorial Hospital.
She and her husband, Tim, live in the Waynesfield community.
Note: this article is provided by ONU Healthwise Pharmacy.
Flu season is here, and that means you or a loved one might have been diagnosed with the flu.
Can the Flu Be Treated?
Yes — the flu can be treated with antiviral medications.
Antivirals are medications that fight the flu in your body. These medications are not sold over the counter. They require a prescription from your doctor.
Antivirals are different from antibiotics because antibiotics are used to fight bacterial infections — not viral infections.
Sonna L. McPheron, 63, died on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, at 12:01 p.m. at her residence in Dola, Ohio.
She was born on Feb. 16, 1956, in Marion, Ohio to the late James and Ethel (Martin) Wright. On Sept. 27, 1991 Sonna married Calvin D. McPheron and he survives in Dola.
Sonna was a homemaker.
Sonna is also survived by her two sons: John McPheron of Dola and William McPheron of Ada; two brothers: Clement Wright of Marion and Bobby Joe (Amy) Page of Maryville, Tenn.; and two sisters: Wanlu (Robert) Neeld of Galliton, Tenn., and Natuta (Frank) Castle of Rushylvania.
By Leland Crouse [email protected] Excerpt from Small Town Sampler by Betty Miller
29 Sep 1993 - A target date of December 1993, for the completion of the restoration of the Pennsylvania caboose in Railroad Park would mark the 90th anniversary of another Ada Community project. The old Civil War cannon resting on its granite base in Railroad Park was dedicated in 1903.
By Nancy N. George, M Ed, RD, LD Blanchard Valley Health System Dietitian
If you look at items in the grocery store, it seems that all of the packages emphasize how much protein the food contains. Why the emphasis now? High protein, low carbohydrate diets are growing in popularity due to an international protein summit held in 2016 that explored nutritional research related to protein. After presenters made recommendations, food manufacturers picked up on their focus.
2019 weather summary chart at bottom of story -
How will 2019 be remembered weather-wise?
In one word: Rain.
From April 1 to July 31 the area experienced 23.83 inches of rain. Those four months accounted for more than one-half of the entire year’s rainfall, which reached 44.23 inches.
The 2019 rainfall was the highest recorded in the area since 54.86 inches fell in 2011.
The 23.83 inches of rain during that four-month period compares to normal average of 15.43 inches during that same period.
According to Ada resident LeAnn Pryor, BBBS of West Central Ohio program director, the common denominators among Littles are single-parent families and a lower income. Still, there are many unique reasons for participation.
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By Barbara Lockard
What do kids from lower income, single-parent families have in common?According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, they all possess an incredible gift … potential!
“Big Brothers Big Sisters of America defends, inspires and ignites the potential of youth every day,” is the opening line of a public service announcement for the organization.
