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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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Color guard wins top honors; band 2nd at Maysville Invite

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Ada High School Marching Band competed in two competitions this past Saturday. 

The band traveled to Columbus early Saturday morning to compete in the Buckeye Invitational at Ohio Stadium. Following this performance, the band packed everything up, headed to the mall for lunch (still in competition attire garnering a lot of stares) then traveled to Zanesville to compete in the Maysville High School Band Competition. 

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Bryan Marshall given 10-year perfect attendance certificate by Kiwanis

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Ada Kiwanis Club met on  October 7  at Community Health Professionals, Ada. President John Berg called the meeting to order.

There were no guests present.

The birthday of member Brian Myers (October 9th) was noted in song.
   The wedding anniversary of Scott and Jamie Wills (October 2nd) was noted.  

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