It was 19 school years ago when this Ada High School girls' tennis team played matches. Names of players and coaches are under the photo. Sorry, no first names are provided. Icon views please help us out the names.
The annual membership drive for the Ada Music Boosters is continuing throughout the fall. A flyer was mailed to all Ada households in June and the Boosters encourage residents to return it with a contribution toward this year’s fund-raising drive.
With the help of the Ada community, the Music Boosters enhance music education and the performance-based programming for the Ada Exempted Village Schools.
The Music Boosters purchase choir robes, band uniforms, instruments, music, Varsity Singer costumes, which support Ada’s state and regional award-winning winter guard, marching band and show choir.
The Ada Varsity Singer Show Choir's summer camp is underway this week. The choir will hold a community “kick off” performance at 6 p.m. Friday, July 17, in the Ada High School auditorium. Ada High School Band camp starts Monday, July 20.
Ada officials figure that 54 million gallons of water fell inside the 2-mile square village limits on Tuesday. In a 30-minute period Ada experienced 1-½ inches of rain.
David Retterer, Ada mayor, reported that figure at Wednesday’s Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) meeting.
“A lot of people are calling the village about the rain. The projects we’ve handed in the past 20 years have enabled us to put in a lot of drainage,” he said, adding that without those project there would be lots of water with no where to go.
“Now we can get rid of water and we believe we are doing it responsibly,” he added.
During the week of July 20th, Liberty National Bank will celebrate Christmas in July by collecting non-perishable food items for the Ada Food Pantry.
The Ada office will be accepting donations during business hours:
• Monday – Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
• Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Here, a mother mallard takes refuge, away from the photographer with her ducklings, under a large willow in the retention basin on West Campus.
The basin is usually dry in mid-July, but Tuesday's downpours filled it to overflowing. My rain gauge reported nearly three inches of rain within a couple of hours in the early afternoon with a third brief gusher an hour later pushing the total past three inches in a short period of time.
Adaites welcomed Wednesday's sunshine as water receded. (Monty Siekerman)
