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Brandon Butterfield attains Boy Scout Eagle rank

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 16, 2014

 Brandon Butterfield of Ada Boy Scouts Troop 124 earned his Eagle Scout award at a Board of Review eariler this past summer. His ceremony was held at the Harrod Fire Department in November. 

At the ceremony Scoutmaster Tom Lehman introduced seven Scouts from the troop to describe Brandon’s trail to Eagle. 

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Hardin fair dairy scholarship and princess applications being accepted

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 16, 2014

By Mark Badertscher

The Hardin County Dairy Service Unit will be awarding a scholarship at their annual banquet on Feb. 15.  Funds raised from the association’s semi-annual cheese sale are used to support higher education with this scholarship program. 

Eligible students must live on a dairy farm, have grown up on a dairy farm, work on a dairy farm, be pursuing a dairy related education, or have shown a dairy heifer or dairy cow project at the Hardin County Fair. 

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Academic and Music Boosters join to co-sponsor the raffle of the decade - tickets now on sale

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Ada Academic and Ada Music Boosters are co-sponsoring a purse/jewelry auction and live raffle just in time for Valentine’s Day. 

The fundraiser will support academic scholarships and music programs at the Ada Schools. 

The fundraiser will be held Sunday, Feb. 9, at 2 p.m. at the Ada Armory. Tickets are $10 and include snacks and a chance at several  door prizes. There are designer purses,  Lia Sophia jewelry and other prizes totaling over $2,500. 

Other prizes include Yankee candles, Pampered Chef, Ada Spiritwear, and Thirty-One.

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Heath Jackson and BGSU Falcons come up short in Little Caesars Pizza Bowl

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, January 15, 2014

WATCH FOR PHOTOS POSTED ON THURSDAY

By Donald Traxler

Heath Jackson, Ada High School graduate and BGSU red-shirt junior wide receiver, started the Falcon fourth quarter drive with a seven-yard pass completion to Ronnie Moore to the BG 32 yard line.

The 75-yard drive took 9 plays and consumed 4:49 on the clock but resulted in the Falcons tying the score at 27 with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. Jackson caught two key first down passes from Quarterback Matt Johnson for 15 and 21 yards.

But Pittsburgh took the ball at their own 28 yard line and moved it to the BGSU 21 yard line.

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Ada Kiwanis members learn about Gliding Stars

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 14, 2014

President Heather Cox called the weekly meeting of the Ada Kiwanis Club to order at 12:00 noon on Tuesday January 14th in McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University, Ada.

The invocation was offered by Jon Umphress

Cindy Bregel, Gliding Stars, Findlay, was welcomed as a guest.

The membership anniversaries of members Claudia Crawford (January 6, 1998), Sandy Neely (January 8, 2006) and Scott Allison (January 16, 2007) were noted.

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Lincoln Highway Assn. meets Jan. 21 at El Campo

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The El Campo Mexican Restaurant, 204 N. Main St., Ada, will host this month’s Lincoln Highway Association Western Ohio Chapter meeting. The meeting is at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 21.

After attendees order dinner individually from the menu, Raymond Schuck will present a program at 7 p.m., regarding early contact and conflict between colonists and Indians in North America, and how this lead to scouting for and eventually opening roads to the interior. 

Schuck is an Assistant Professor of History at Ohio Northern University and Director of the Museum Studies Program. He retired in 2000 as the Director of the Allen County Museum in Lima.  The public is invited.

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