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.
Photos and story by Monty Siekerman
Keith Harman, immediate past national commander of the VFW, spoke at Ohio Northern Veterans Day ceremonies on Monday morning. The ONU Veterans Day ceremonies marked not only the annual day set aside to honor and memorialize service men and women past and present but also marked the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice.
Harman said it was appropriate that the occasion was held near the statue of Dr. Henry Solomon Lehr, the founder of the university and a Civil War veteran. He noted that seven percent of the U.S. population has served in the military, protecting our safety, security, and wellbeing.
From the 1920s to the 1940s the ZoRoLo company, located on East Buckeye Avenue, back of the Liberty bank in Ada, made a product to cure arthritis.
The first and second floors of the building were used for and office and as a place to hold vats in which the formula was mixed, placed in gallon containers, and shipped to places in the United States.
ZoRoLo sponsored a baseball team in a community league with Dola, Forest, Dunkirk, Alger, and McGuffey. The games were played on West Buckeye in a vacant lot.
The Ada Exempted Village School District will have Parent-Teacher conferences for students in grades K-12 on Monday, Nov. 19 from 4 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. and on Tuesday, Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Students will only attend school on Monday, Nov. 19 that week.
There will not be school on Nov. 20 or 21 for conferences or Nov. 22 and Nov. 23
for Thanksgiving break.
Elementary conferences will be student-led. Parents should bring their child with them so that the student, along with his or her teacher, can share information about this year’s progress.
Trees, trees, and more trees—that’s why they call it the Festival of Trees.
The Community Health Professionals Festival of Trees began Sunday afternoon and will continue through Saturday. The silent auction includes many decorated trees and wreaths as well as holiday decorations. Ada Icon readers are encouraged to stop in and bid. Proceeds benefit CHP hospice services.
Kids are amazed at the giant lollipops which are part of the decoration of the USV tree. Pictured are two-year-old Emma Wilkerson of Ada and seven-year-old Benaiah Cox of Marion.
