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Someone you know is on the Ada honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Here's the Ada school honor roll for the second nine-week grading period.

FOURTH GRADE ALL A:  Jackson Brown, Abid Khan, Autumn Andreasen, Olivia Burkhart, Dakota Gossman, Luke Limer, Ella Marshall and Josie Phillips

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Eddings Feb. 3 L.E.A.D speaker

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Women L.E.A.D. presents "The Power of Risk Taking for Women Leaders."  with guest speaker, Amy Eddings a former New York City public radio host of "All Things Considered" and now the owner of the Easter House Bed & Breakfast, Ada.

Networking for this event begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Hardin Memorial Hospital McCullough Conference Room in Kenton.

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Hardin Dems committees planning Presidents' Day luncheon

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Members of the Hardin County Democratic Central and Executive Committees will meet Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 7 pm. at Henry’s Restaurant, 995 N. Detroit St., Kenton, according to Don Traxler.

Final plans will be made for the Presidents' Day Luncheon and Rally to be held Saturday, Feb. 20, at noon at the Walnut Grove United Methodist Church approximately 3 miles north of Kenton on the west side of State Route 68 at the intersection with Township Road 80. 

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Ada to Zac: "Thanks for everything!"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, January 30, 2016

Photos and story by Monty Siekerman
A loud and joyous crowd gave hometown favorite Zac Dysert a well-deserved welcome Saturday night at the Ada High School gym when his #12 jersey was retired.

The occasion took place between the junior varsity and varsity basketball games.

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Dyserts' high school football coach, Mike Fell, introduced Dysert to a large crowd which gave the local star a standing ovation.

Fell related how it was a pleasure to coach Dysert, how Dysert was a standout athlete in many sports, and through it all remained a fine Christian man.

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Ada HS and ONU grad designing sets and costumes for The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 29, 2016

This month, Ada High School and Ohio Northern University graduate, Jill Davis, is at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.

She is the daughter of Duane and the late Helen Davis of Ada.

She was invited to design the set and costumes for three short farces by Feydeau. Geoff Bullen translated these scripts from French and is now directing the production he has dubbed “Chez Feydeau.”

Here is one of the three renderings of the set Davis created for the production. “There are three projection screens above the set that have images of Paris at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries,” explains Davis.

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Mike Hood talks to Kiwanis Club about human trafficking along I-75

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 28, 2016

Mike Hood told Ada Kiwanis members about the problems with human trafficking problem along I-75 and in Allen County. 

He said that not only does this problem include trafficking in the sex industry, but also trafficking in labor intensive industries. He noted that In Lima the police reported that they currently working on 1,000 cases. Lima is an origin city for trafficking victims. 

As of August 2015, about 1,900 children have been recovered by the Lima police, the youngest about 9 years old. People are also trafficked for the harvesting of organs. 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is working on this problem with the Ohio Human Trafficking Commission, said Hood.

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