What do you do when someone celebrates her 104th birthday?
You sing “Happy Birthday!”
That’s what the Bingo crowd at Community Health Professionals did on Wednesday for Ada resident Naudean Amidon. She will turn 104 on Feb. 5.
How do you top that? You don’t.
However, as a close second, you have Agnes Crates, also of Ada, give her friend, Naudean, a bouquet of flowers. Between the two women they’ve blown out birthday candles over 200 times. Agnes is 102.
Ada schools is in the midst of “Spirit Week.” It’s a result of a Sociology class discussion led by teacher Kristin Salyer.
Adults reading this may have a different concept of “high school spirit” from their own school days than students of today have.
Students in Salyer’s junior and senior Sociology class at Ada High School recently focused on collective behavior. From that a discussion started on how and why social movements form.
Salyer said, “In one particular discussion, I gave students an assignment to talk to their parents about generational differences.
Ohio Northern University’s Super Bowl Countdown will provide football fans with lots of preparation in anticipation of this year’s game. The program, titled “ONU’s Super Bowl Countdown…Beyond the Broadcast,” is free and open to the public.
The Countdown is from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, in the McIntosh Center Activities Room.
Speakers include:
• Dean Paul, ONU head football coach. He will discuss halftime and sideline adjustments anticipated in the game.
A rodent in a Pennsylvania berg indicated this morning that North America is in for an early spring. That's good news unless you like to ski, skate, or own a lodge on a hill. However, a local golden retriever predicts just the opposite, as she saw her shadow in Railroad Park at sunrise, meaning we are in for more cold weather. For more on the story, click here. (Monty Siekerman photo)
