The work of new Bluffton author Tom Arnold has arrived at virtual and local retailers with the story of sculptor and poet Dewey Severs (1941-2020), who worked a variety of physically demanding jobs until three heart attacks left him bankrupt.
Just Dewey: A Journey from Poverty to Creative Genius tells how Dewey began dreaming of creating art with horseshoes and saw God giving him a new direction in life. The book follows Dewey from a childhood filled with hardship in the Missouri Ozarks, through his becoming a husband and father, to finally settling near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Buckeye Boys State and Buckeye Girls State are American government learning experiences hosted by the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary that are dubbed “A Week to Shape a Lifetime.” A conversation with Aidra Preston, an Ada High School student who participated in summer 2024, makes it also sound like a lifetime compressed into a week.
Reminder: 8th Annual Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival t-shirt pick up is this Saturday, August 19 at Four Seaons Drive-Thru from 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce notes, if you selected shipping for your items, they have been shipped from Lima. Please keep an eye out!
To accomodate the Thursday evening open house for the entire district (from 6:30-8:00 p.m.), the School Board meeting for the Ada Exmpted Village Schools will start at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 15.
The meeting takes place in board chambers in the administrative wing.
Board members are Ronald Fleming, President; Ted Griffith, Matt Gossman, Troy Erickson and Justin Hollon.
