Brenna Hissong, Ada High School senior, is the 2021 Hardin County’s Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Awards winner. Brenna plans on enrolling in the Ohio Northern University pharmacy program upon graduating from high school.
The awards program, named in honor of Ohio’s 31st State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Franklin B. Walter, was established in 1989 by Ohio Educational Services Center Association, to promote and recognize outstanding student leaders for their academic achievement and service to their schools and communities.
Paige Cole, an Ada High School senior, is one of three $1,000 scholarship recipients through a Liberty National Bank Financial Literacy Program.
Thirty-six students in Hardin, Logan and Union counties submitted applications for the bank’s My Money Matters scholarship.
It is a free, online financial literacy program sponsored by the bank, at no cost to participating schools. Liberty is partnered with EverFi, Inc., an education technology company to bring this interactive, web-based financial management program schools.
FROM ADA BULLDOGS FACEBOOK - We won't try to explain how the competition works; we think you already know. Here's the top four finishers in the high school Simon Says competition held last week: Cami, Olivia, Jacob and Kadin.
FROM BLUFFTON ICON - Bluffton Icon features a weekly series of Swiss immigrant families who settled in the Bluffton and Pandora area. One of those family members, Rosa Badertscher married Edwin Simon and that couple moved to the Ada area and had 6 boys and 2 girls. This is the story of that larger Badertscher family.
Karl and Anna Weber Badertscher and family are this week’s focus.
A previous column featured Peter and Anna Aeschliman Badertscher (Jan. 21, 2021) and we are unable to find any connections between these two Badertschers.
Ada elementary teacher, Barth Montel, was recognized Friday by Quest Federal Credit Union, along with one teacher from each of the schools in Hardin County, as Hardin County’s Teachers of the Year.
The ceremony was accompanied by a luncheon at Ada’s, Viva Mari Restaurant.
According to Meri Skilliter, Ada superintendent, “Mr. Montel was generous with his time and expertise, helping colleagues learn more about maximizing apps and programs and platforms so they could best engage students remotely.
“He spent the first semester, switching job assignments with aplomb, to accommodate online option students.
The AiR program is an opportunity for undergraduate students interested in art-science intersections to explore innovative means of science communication.
