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Meet Hunter. He is a one year old chocolate lab mix. He is available today. Can you give Hunter a forever home?

To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.

Hours of operation:
Monday 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. 
Tuesday and Thursday - closed 
Wedneday 12 p.m.- 6 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Phone: 419-674-2209.

Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
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The Ada Herald, Ada, Ohio, March 2, 1982

A cloth banner was found by The Ada Herald recently. A very well done painting is on each side of the banner, but the reason for either side being painted is unknown. Does anyone of our readers remember anything of the ONU Club, or what American Tin and Honest Dollars could stand for?

The Ada Herald, Ada, Ohio, March 10, 1982

Ada High School junior, Abbie James, showing for the first time in the junior beef heifer class at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky. (From Ada Bulldogs Facebook)

Aline Click Rowe, age 94, died on Friday, November 9, 2018 at 8:15 p.m. at Vancrest of Ada, after a two week illness.                        

            She was born on November 20, 1923 in Garrett, Kentucky to the late Frank and Virgie (Huff) Click.  On February 28, 1939 Aline married Earnest Rowe and they were married for 66 years before his passing. They married at the age of 15 and 18.   

Speaker from Springfield is author of several books

Photos and story by Monty Siekerman
Ada Schools hosted its annual Veterans Day breakfast on Monday, an especially memorable occasion this year due to the 100th anniversary of The Great War with the armistice ending World War I on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Forty men and women who served in the military, and their spouses, attended the breakfast which was paid for by an anonymous donor.

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