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Ada Junior High and High School Winter Guard competition season underway

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 27, 2014

Countless hours have been spent developing and practicing this year’s competition programs for the Ada Jr. High and High School Winter Guard participants.

Practices have been ongoing since Thanksgiving last year for the Ada Jr. High Winter Guard, High School Rifle Line, and High School Winter Guard groups, which are under the direction of Jonathan Lischak and Amy Webb.

Photo caption: Jr. High Winter Guard, High School Rifle Line, and High School Winter Guard team members pose following awards at Central Crossing High School.

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Warm up

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 27, 2014

Isaac Spar, Ada sixth grader and French horn player, warms up in sixth grade band rehearsal.

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Freda Neiswander, 108, was born in Ada in 1906

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 27, 2014

Freda M. “Fritz” Neiswander, 108, formerly of Adrian, Mich., died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
She was born Jan. 4, 1906, in Ada, Ohio, the seventh of 16 children of Alfred and Adele (Grant) Criblez, and was raised on the family farm in Bluffton, Ohio.

She was married to Eugene C. Neiswander for 67 years, and he preceded her in death in 2001.

She was a graduate of Findlay College and worked at Michigan Central Railroad in Detroit before moving to Adrian where she was a manager at the Girls Training School.She was a former member of the First United Methodist Church in Adrian.

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Dr. Who held office hours at the library yesterday - so to speak

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Dr. Who is an alien - the last of the powerful Time Lords. An intrepid traveller, a wanderer through space and time. He is, he agrees, "a madman with a box."

And Dr.  Who fans showed up at the Ada Public Library yesterday to help celebrate the good doctor's 50th anniversary with a Dr. Who theme party.

Click here for lots of photos from the library's facebook page.

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Which came first? The bird or the egg?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

That's an amazing bird. Just check out the size of those eggs - and compare them to the size of the bird in the cage. You'll find the bird and eggs in Artists Botique on Main.

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ONU symphonic band to present spring concert, ‘In Ireland’

Posted by Paula Scott on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Ohio Northern University symphonic band, Northern Winds, presents its spring concert, “In Ireland,” in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m.

This program is ONU’s first large musical celebration of traditional Irish culture. The program includes the selections “The Wearing of the Green,” “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” “The Irish Washer Woman” and the ever-popular “Danny Boy.”

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