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Meet Janet Fisher - in the Vancrest resident spotlight

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Janet Fisher, a life-long Ada resident, is this month's Vancrest resident spotlight.

She grew up in Ada and graduated from Ada High School. She worked at Hal and Jean's restaurant for many years, saying that she took the job because a teacher told her that it would "break her shyness."

She enjoyed bowling and now her favorite game is balloon volleyball. Janet is a long-term care resident of Vancrest.

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Summer Sounds Choral Camp

Singing, dancing, making drums, playing instruments and building new friendships
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, July 22, 2019

Mother of 6th and 8th graders: “Our boys loved the week of choral camp!”

Eleven singers, grades 1 to 8, joined Noteworthy Community Choir’s first-ever Summer Sounds Choral Camp, and spent the week singing, dancing, making drums, playing instruments and building new friendships.  

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“We didn’t know the vocal skills of the campers until day one, and they were wonderful singers!  We even managed a three-part song!”  says, Vicki Mills, director of SSCC.  

“Year one was a fantastic success, and we’re already looking forward to year two. I even heard a camper tell his mom he wanted to come to this camp again next year!”

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Ward’s photos of Ada focus on the “unique”

Ada post card series now available at The Gallery for the Arts
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, July 21, 2019

By Barb Lockhard
If the New Mexico landscape was an inspiration to artist Georgia O’Keeffe in the 1920s, decades later it may have also been a visual training ground for Ada photographer Karen Ward. 

- All post cards in the series are attached below -

Arriving in Ada nearly 30 years ago from Las Cruces, New Mexico, Ward fell in love with “the charm of the yesteryear vintage of this small village.”  She’s been photographing Ada ever since.

Ward has created a collection of postcards featuring Ada’s historic landmarks and unique perspectives of everyday scenes. 

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New PASS executive director has Ada connection

Serving area communities through the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin counties
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, July 18, 2019

Rick Skilliter, husband of Meri Skilliter, Ada school superintendent, became executive director of PASS (Prevention Awareness Support Services), a non-profit organization serving Allen, Auglaize, and Hardin Counties. The appointment was made on July 1.

PASS serves area communities through the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin counties.

PASS is expanding its footprint in Ohio as a certified prevention agency. According to a PASS news release, the addition of Skilliter allows for continuity of programming during that expansion.

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ONU student among 8 Ohio law students in rural summer initiative

Working in Zanesville with an 11-attorney firm
Posted by LizGH on Thursday, July 18, 2019

FROM THE ONU PETTIT COLLEGE OF LAW FACEBOOK - Maggie Kimmel, L-3, was one of eight Ohio law students chosen by the Ohio State Bar Association to participate in the new Rural Summer Clerkship Initiative.

Through the program, she is working in Zanesville at Gottlieb, Johnston, Beam, and Dal Ponte, PLL.

“There are eleven attorneys who work at this general-practice firm and each one has a different focus,” she said. “I am loving the opportunity to dabble in all areas of the law so I can figure out what area I would like to focus on for my own practice after graduation.”

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I can see clearly now

Bernie and Brenda Mackey and Ada Lions collect glasses for re-use around the world
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Bernie Mackey and his wife, Brenda, help people see clearly.

The Mackeys, with the Ada Lions Club, have collected used eyeglasses in the Ada community and beyond for about 10 years.

These eyeglasses are collected from people who have dropped old glasses off at local collection sites.

These collection sites iinclude Eyes on Main, VFW, Ada Public Library, Kenny's Barbershop, Keith's Hardware, Reichert's, Ada Visiting Nurses and Shawnee Optical.

After picking up the glasses at these various sites Bernie and Brenda take them to Vosh Ohio in Pandora, an eyeglass sorting site.

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