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Here's the third quarter list for 2018-19
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 25, 2019

Here is the Ada Exempted Village Schools 3rd quarter Honor Roll for the 2018-19 school year.

Grade 4

All A:  Brooklyn Andreasen, Callee Burgess, Kiera Cash, Timothy Chrissobolis, Kolton Dysert, Alivia Gibson, Chase Jarrett, Reese Jordan, Kaytlin Lambert, Wesley Mowery, Dailah Preston, Jacob Rush, Tyler Stauffer, Allison Stockert, Jacob Szippl and Blake Zoladz

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Cheerleader tryouts set for April

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, March 22, 2019

Give me an “A”!

It is cheerleading tryout time for next year's Ada Junior High and High School football and basketball seasons.

Open to current 6th graders to high school juniors, a practice clinic is from 3 to 6 p.m., Sunday, March 31. Tryouts follows at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 7, according to Bridgette Jones and Tracy Breidenbach, high school coaches.

The tryouts include scoring in a group cheer, jumps and tumbling, group chant, dance and a teacher evaluation.

A written test on knowledge of basketball and football will be taken by all who tryout. Ada cheerleaders will participate in the UCA Cheerleading Camp held at Ohio Northern University July 26-29.

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Kiwanis Club meets 4 Paws

ONU program raises service dogs
Posted by Icon K on Friday, March 22, 2019

Earlier this week Dominick Sara and Carah Porter from Ohio Northern University updated Ada Kiwanis members best about the 4 Paws for Ability program involving ONU student training service dogs

Founded in 2014, Polar Paws is an Ohio Northern University student organization that raises service dogs through 4 Paws for Ability in Xenia, Ohio.

The active campus of Ohio Northern offers a wide variety of events and social situations for dogs to experience and is the key to a service dog in training's development and socialization.

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McDonald’s Bulldog Business of the month

Posted by Icon K on Friday, March 22, 2019

Ada McDonald’s Restaurant is the Ada school Bulldog Business of the month for March. Dan Lee, Ada High School principal, made the presentation to Tina Perrine, McDonald’s manager, earlier this week.

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113th Interclass Competition - juniors rule

Here are this year's contestants and winners
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 19, 2019

The 113th annual Ada High School Interclass Competition – held Friday evening – is in the books, and here are the winners:

Winning class: (Juniors) Nora Dellifield, Hunter Wells, Samantha Crawford, Leah Conley.

Individual winning categories: Audrey Hazelton (poetry), Brooklyn Rudasill (essay), Allison Dotson (dramatic reading), Samantha Crawford (short story).

And, this year’s contestants: Ryan Kilgallon, Jacob Thaxton, Nora Dellifield, Audrey Hazelton, Brooklyn Rudasill, Allison Dotson, Hunter Wells, Leah Conley, Samantha Crawford, Alyssa Wince, Cade Mullins and Kesewa Akyeampong.

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Jefferson Award recipient is on “third career”

Phil Compton, Ada, has gone from university professor, to minister, to waiting tables. For him, that’s a good thing.
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 18, 2019

By Barb Lockard
Phil Compton, Ada, has gone from university professor, to minister, to waiting tables.  For him, that’s a good thing. 

The Greater Lima United Way recently selected Compton as one of 12 recipients of the 2019 Jefferson Award for Public Service.  Talking with Phil, one immediately discovers that public service is in his DNA.

“Helping others is what we’re supposed to do,” said Compton. “I’m a ‘cradle Christian,’ and was raised with the idea that we came to serve.”

Originally a member of the Church of the Brethren, Compton attended Manchester University in Indiana.  He met his wife, LaDonna, in graduate school.

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