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Silver Birch Foundation holds Charity Gala on Dec. 14

First Black Ties & Silver Bells Charity Gala

LIMA__ Area Agency on Aging 3’s Silver Birch Foundation will be holding its first Black Ties & Silver Bells Charity Gala Saturday, December 14, 2024 at UNOH Event Center in Lima.

The Silver Birch Foundation was established in July 2017 to support the mission on Area Agency on Aging 3. There are many services and needs of older adults and those with disabilities that the agency in unable to use state or federal funding. The foundation comes in and helps fund those services and needs, taking the burden off the individual in need.

ONU introduces Anatomage tables to healthcare and science students

More about Ohio Northern at www.ONU.edu/news

Ohio Northern University students in nursing, biology, exercise physiology, pre-med, and other healthcare and science fields now have a new way of exploring and learning about the human body.

Beatitudes thanks ONU student volunteers

From Beatitudes on Facebook: "Thank you to our ONU students for helping put together our [December 7] Christmas lunch.... They also braved the cold to work our drive through. 176 meals were served between inside and drive ups!! We love our volunteers."

Karen Kier's "legendary" brownies

From Ohio Northern University on www.facebook.com/OhioNorthern

Editor's note: Karen Kier provides a weekly article published on the Icon on Thursdays.

Karen Kier, BSPh ’82, is the drug information expert in Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy. She’s taught and mentored aspiring pharmacists for 39 years, and been widely-lauded for her service to her community and profession.

Karen also makes a mean brownie.

Bulldog girls basketball falls to Hornets, McVetta

By Cort Reynolds / Additional photos by Mark Andreasen below

ADA – The Ada High School girls basketball team lost 38-20 to visiting Cory-Rawson and a hot shooter in a non-conference battle Monday night, December 9.

The Bulldogs pulled within 24-18 late in the third period, but then Hornet senior Morgan McVetta buried a dagger triple at the buzzer to stretch the lead to nine.  

C-R went on to score seven more unanswered points against a deflated Ada squad, capping a decisive 10-0 spurt with a 34-18 cushion.

Ada Fire Hydrant Replacement Project begins December 10

Update shared by the Village of Ada 

Village of Ada Fire Hydrant replacement project starts on Dec 10, 2024. The Village of Ada has received a CDBG - Neighborhood Revitalization grant for the replacement of 16 fire hydrants throughout the Village.

Hohenbrink Excavating has received the contract at an estimated cost of $130,000.

There will be disruption of water service or fire protection during the process of replacing the 16 fire hydrants. The contractor will be working within the roadway so please be cautious when entering the work zone.

Village of Ada
115 West Buckeye Ave
Ada Ohio 45810
(419) 634-4045

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