April 2020

Sheung Ching Wong, 99, passed away on Monday, April 27, 2020, at 10:15 a.m. at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.

She was born on Dec. 14, 1921, in Taishan, China. On Feb. 24, 1946, Sheung married Chun Song Liu and he preceded her in death on June 3, 2003. 

Sheung was born in China and lived there until 1958. She then lived in Hong Kong until moving to Ada in 1985.  In 2015, she then moved to Columbus. She and her husband helped operate the Ada China Express owned by their son, Eddie Lau. 

It reads like, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," letter to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon from Francis Pharcelus Church, editor of the New York Sun newspaper.

Only, it's from Jasmine Gibson to all the teachers in Ada. It's one of over a dozen thank you notes written by students in Mrs. Winklejohn's elementary art classes and posted on the Ada Bulldogs Facebook.

The thank you notes cover just about every occupation of essential workers that you can list – you will see several examples at the bottom of this story and by clicking here (to the Ada Bulldogs Facebook).

Lima Memorial Health System and Ohio Northern University have a longstanding clinical affiliation, which accelerated to a whole new level as the two organizations partnered to bring PCR molecular testing for COVID-19 to the greater Lima region.

This is the same method being used by the Ohio Department of Health. ONU provided essential equipment to enable Lima Memorial to provide this critical testing.

Dr. Dennis De Luca, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio Northern University and Molecular Specialist, helped lead the initiative on behalf of Ohio Northern University.