A BBQ pulled pork fundraising dinner for Porcelain Ministries will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Saturday at the Ada Church of Christ Disciples, 316 S. Main. Tickets are $8. Walk-ins welcome while supply lasts.
Porcelain Ministries provides pregnancy and parenting resources for any Hardin County area mom in a struggling situation while pregnant or with a new-born infant.
Volunteers help moms connect with ob/gyn and pregnancy resources and pediatrician and baby resources, as well as providing hands-on parent and baby care training, transportation assistance, and a personalized plan toward independence.
Remember when you brought something to school for "show and tell"? This fun activity continues today. Here, a student at Ready, Set, Grow Preschool in Ada shares her My Little Pony with her student friends. What did you bring to show and tell?
By Monty Siekerman
Once again it’s the Battle of the Burgers at McDonalds in Ada when Ada and Upper Scioto Valley schools compete for the most customers during a two-hour period. A portion of the restaurant’s profits go to the schools. USV won last year. Will Ada get enough customers to McDonald’s to win the match in 2018?
Since Ada went first last year, USV competes first this year. USV teachers and staff will be on hand from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8. Ada’s turn is 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17.
By Monty Siekerman
Hardin County Pullers third annual Fall Brawl and The first-ever Sled Bandits Sled Pull will be held Friday and Saturday at Ada War Memorial Park. Admission is $15.
The Sled Bandits will be at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The Pullers will run at noon on Saturday. For the Pullers the gates open at 9 a.m. with registration beginning at 10:30 a.m.
The Ohio Northern University Symphony will present “American Essence” on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. Music Director Travis Jürgens will conduct the program, which will feature works by American composers. The program also will include an Ohio premiere of a piece,a guest pianist, and the ONU Dance Company.
The concert opens with Copland’s “Billy the Kid Suite,” taken from the ballet about the American Old West outlaw and moments in his life. The orchestra will then perform music from Disney films, in collaboration with the ONU dance program, choreographed by Kathryn Braunwarth.
FROM BLUFFTON ICON - During her inaugural address as Bluffton University’s 10th president, Dr. Jane Wood pondered a fact that many people in Yoder Recital Hall likely didn’t realize.
This year’s incoming freshmen, the class of 2022, were born in the year 2000. They have lived in a century and a world that has never known life without the internet or Google.
“So the question before us, in many ways, becomes, what does it mean to have a university education when students can hold in their hands a smartphone, which can access more information and produce more facts than our counterparts in the Middle Ages could have ever imagined?” asked Dr. Wood.
