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New Leaf open Memorial Day 9-3

New Leaf Landscape/Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235 Ada, is open Monday, May 27 (Memorial Day), from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Center offers a wide selection of Memorial Day items:

• Geraniums
• Bedding plants
• Urns and planters
• Cemetery saddles
• Vases and wreaths
• Silk flower bushes.

ADA STORE:
419-634-0351
www.newleafgc.com

KENTON STORE:
419-675-2718

ONU senior interns this summer at Community Health Professionals

Kyle Rex is an Ohio Northern University senior currently interning at Community Health Professionals.  The fit is a good one for this pharmacy business major from Napoleon, Ohio.  His hybrid major combines primarily courses in business with pharmacy science classes.  For Rex his concentration is marketing.

Working 20 hours a week at CHP over the course of this summer, Rex is starting out his internship with a focus on marketing and fundraising, specifically for the CHP hospice benefit fund.  The fund assists those with limited means to have access to hospice services.

It doesn't seem that long ago

Members of the 1978 Ada High School girls' basketball team - Class A Ohio champions, were inducted into the Hardin County Sports Hall on May 18. This is the first time the team has gathered for a reunion. Read the story below for more details.

Front row, from left, Vicki Oates, Head coach Sharon Pitts, Linda Bischoff, Anna Wright, Teri Stahl, Donna Hall.  Back from left, Chris Binkley Jodi Kindle, Judy Long, Lori Klingler, Lynn Coe, Kathy Decker, Stephanie Pitts and Richard Williamson.

Police docket for May 13 - May 19

May 13

  • Handled Suspicious Person Complaint on Ream St
  • Assist EMS on N Johnson St

  • Handled Possible Theft Complaint on E Lincoln
  • Handled Vandalism Complaint on Franklin Ave
  • Handled Fight Complaint on S Simon 
Report taken for Theft

May 14


Meet the 1978 Ada High School girls Class A state basketball champions

By Don Traxler

Note: Don introduced the 1978 Ada HS girls basketball team on May 18 at the Hardin County Sports Hall of Fame induction program. His introduction follows:

It is my honor to introduce to you Ada’s first girls’ basketball coach Sharon Pitts and her 1978 Ada girls basketball Class A state champions and Hardin County's first state championship team. This was the third girls’ state basketball team and there were three divisions!

Is the great American novel inside you waiting to come out? Join the Ada Writers Group

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” --Toni Morrison

Are you a writer? Do you want to be a writer?

Never thought about it, but now that you mention it, gee, that might be fun? Join a Writers’ Workshop. Meet other aspiring adult writers to share your work, gain motivation, inspiration, and insight! Hone your craft my friends.

The group meets at the Ada Public Library. The first meeting is at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, May 23, according to Amanda Bennett, library director.

The group meets in the library's front reading room and will be led by Sarah Crawford.

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