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The Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) elected six trustees for a two-year term beginning Jan. 1., and adopted a 2014 budget during its December meeting held Wednesday at McIntosh Center.

Trustees elected to a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 31, 2015, are Deb Curlis, Crystal Huffer, Bryan Marshall, James Meyer, David Retterer and Fred Steiner.

They join current trustees whose terms expire Dec. 31, 2014: Beth Fenton, Dick Lawrence, Angela Polachek, Norm Rex, Don Traxler and Jimmy Wilson.

Officers will be elected at the Jan. 15 board meeting.

The 2014 budget, approved on Wednesday, has projected revenue of $1,337 and projected expenses at $858.

Ohio Northern University senior Bridget Davis, an electrical engineering major from Newark, Ohio, has been awarded the John W. Estey Outstanding Power and Energy (PES) Scholar Award. The scholarship is from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) PES Society Scholarship Plus Initiative.

Davis was only one of seven individuals to receive the scholarship. In its letter to ONU, the IEEE Power & Energy Society described Davis as a “high-achieving undergraduate student in an electrical engineering program who is committed to exploring the power and energy engineering field through both coursework and career experiences.”