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Ada High School students have opportunity to donate blood on Wednesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 21, 2014

Many Ada High School students will participate in the exerience of donating blood during the school day, Wednesday, April 23. The American Red Cross will be at the school from 8 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.

Several bits of information have gone home to parents, providing information about donating blood.

A copy of the "Parent Consent for Blood Donation" form and an information sheet about donating blood are attachments to the story.

 

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Pipe art

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 21, 2014

There is light at the end of the Lima Avenue tunnel. The project will eventually be completed. Here's a look through the many pipes awaiting their turn to be placed under the street and to allow water to flow once the project is completed.

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A teaching moment

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 20, 2014

Students at the Ready, Set, Grow Preschool examine a butterfly crystalis in a netted cage. Jamie Dellifield, teacher, explains that soon butterflies will appear.

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Homecoming 20 years ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 20, 2014

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Here’s the Ada High School homecoming court from 20 years ago – 1993-94 school year. Members from left, Heather Dysert, sophomore; Jaime Brown, senior; Marcie Vicere, queen; Carie Bingman, senior; Genelle Umphress, junior and Abby Brown, freshman. (Photo from the Ada Public Library collection)

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Alger Fest' Committee breakfast on May 3

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, April 20, 2014

The Alger Memorial Festival Committee is sponsoring a Country-Style breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the Alger Social Center, Main St., Alger. Biscuits, sausage gravy, hash-browns, scrambled eggs, fried apples, sausage patties and beverage will be served. 

The suggested donation is $7.00 for the all-you-can-eat meal (on premises only). Carry out is available. Can’t get there? Call 419- 679-8460 (not long distance) for free local delivery. Call 419-757-3891 for more information.

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17.6 million bushels of Hardin County corn

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, April 20, 2014

Hardin County farmers produced 17,600,000 bushels of corn in 2013, with an average yield of 174.3 bushels per acre. Some 101,000 acres of corn were harvested locally.  Farmers in Logan County produced 12,800,000 bushels of corn in the same year, with an average yield of 174.1 bushels per acre on 73,500 acres harvested.  By comparison, farmers in Hancock County produced 17,300,000 bushels of corn with an average yield of 181.2 bushels per acre on 95,500 acres of land on which corn was harvested.

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