You are here

Ada's latest news

Nancy Marie Poe Yoakam was a former member of the USV school board

Nancy Marie (Poe) Yoakam, age 73, died on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 9:05 am at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima.

She was born on February 26, 1940 in Hardin County, Ohio to Edward and Susie (Allen) Poe and they preceded her in death. On June 8, 1957 she married Harold L. Yoakam and he survives in Alger.

Nancy was a homemaker and she previously worked at Dave's Market in Kenton for several years. She was a member of the McGuffey Church of Christ. Nancy was a graduate of the McGuffey High School class of 1957 and she previously attended Hi-Point in accounting. Nancy was a former member of the Upper Scioto Valley School Board for four years. 

Changes made to school website; procedures for parents revised

The Ada school website has a change this year in the manner that parents' access the site for student's Progress Book Gradebook data.

Parents are now able to create and manage their own user accounts with an individual Registration Key. Due to this change your old login information from previous year's is no longer valid.

Parents in grades one through five should have receive their registration keys in letter form in their child's book bag on Aug. 26.  Parents in grades six through 12 will receive their letters through the mail soon.

To access the school website click here.

Soccer season!

Ada HS soccer player Devin Waugh takes the ball through a host of Upper Sandusky soccer players in a varsity game on Tuesday. Upper won 3-1. (Photo by Vicki Garmon)

ONU opens 2013-14 gallery program with ‘Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books Project II’

The Ohio Northern University gallery program opens its 2013-14 art exhibition and gallery season at the Elzay Gallery of Art with an international traveling show titled “Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books Project (MIMB) II.” More than 100 unique and subtly created object books are featured in the second version of MIMB. The exhibit runs Sept. 3 through Oct. 25.

Hui-Chu Ying, professor of art at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, and its main exhibition space, the Emily Davis Gallery, coordinated this exhibition.

ONU's athletic training program re-accredited by CAATE

 

The Ohio Northern University athletic training program has received the maximum continuing accreditation award of 10 years from the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE).

The ONU program has met all of the nationally recognized Standards for Accreditation of Professional Athletic Training Programs as set by the CAATE. The award resulted from a comprehensive evaluation of the ONU athletic training program, including a self-study and on-site visit in February 2013. ONU’s program was initially accredited in 1998.

September-October Ada Highlights calendar seeks events

The Ada Icon is currently working on the September-October Ada Highlights calendar of events, distributed by the Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC).

Persons who have events that are open to the public and take place within the Ada school district should send the information to:

[email protected]

Please send, name of event, date, time and location.

Pages