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Ada Friends - mentoring between ONU students and Ada youth - have 2014-15 kickoff

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Ada Friends are active this fall. 

LOTS OF PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY!

Here's a report from Austin Hilverding, ONU student and Ada Friends coordinator:

On Oct 7 we had our first event of the year, the Ada Friends Kick-off Party which was a huge success. The party saw 59 out of our 85 matches for the year and many parents attend the event, and total attendance for the event surpassed 160 people by the end of the night.

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Introducing the 2014 Ada High School homecoming court

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 21, 2014

It’s homecoming week at Ada High School and on Friday evening a 2014 king and queen will be crowned in a pre-game ceremony prior to the Delphos Jefferson football game.

MORE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

Here’s the members of this year’s court:

King candidates
Cort Everhart, son of Keith and Tammy Everhart.
He is the FFA president, senior class vice president, student council vice president, Foreign Language Club member, Aspirations team member, National Honor Society member, baseball letter winner and a scholar athlete.

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Ada Rotarian Bill Trudeau named Paul Harris Fellow

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Monday, October 20, 2014

Rotary District 6600 Governor Rex Engle recently honored Ada Rotarian Bill Trudeau (at left in photo) as a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of Trudeau’s donations of over $2,000 to the Rotary Foundation. The award is named in honor of Harris, who founded Rotary in 1905. 

Engle made the presentation during his recent visit to Ada’s Rotary Club, which meets each Tuesday at The Inn at Ohio Northern University.

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Pool levy topic of Ada Kiwanis Club

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 20, 2014

The Ada Kiwanis Club met on Tuesday October 14, at  noon at McIntosh Center, ONU, Ada. President John Berg called the meeting to order.
Jaime Hall was welcomed as a guest .

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2001 Ada grad Melissa Retterer in the hand bag business

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, October 19, 2014

15 minutes with Melissa Retterer

What year did you graduate from Ada HS?
2001

What activities were you involved in at Ada HS?
I played soccer and ran track.

Where do you live now and what are you doing?
I now live in Columbus near Polaris.  I quit my job as a server over the summer to pursue my handbag business full time.

Please tell us about LuxeFunction, your custom handbag business.
The handbag business I started is called Luxe Function.  I design everything in my line for function first and then for looks. Each aspect is as important as the other. 

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Ada Whiz Quiz team will be on Channel 44

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, October 17, 2014

Champions have been crowned in the TV-44 Whiz Quiz Tournament with Van Wert and St. Marys claiming top title in each respective tournament bracket. The annual televised event included 30 high school quiz teams, divided evenly  into two different brackets, each bracket with three days of competition until crowning a champion.

Bracket one, aka, the Fall Whiz Quiz Tournament, included the following teams: Coldwater, Patrick Henry, Riverdale, Delphos St. Johns, Elida, Paulding, Versailles, Van Wert, Findlay, New Bremen, Shawnee, Bellefontaine, Continental, Arcadia and Allen East.

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