You are here

Home

Ada's latest news

The spell of winter

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 20, 2014

Winter's landscape provides interesting textures. Here's a zoom lens look at am area backyard flowering crabapple tree's fruits in January.

»

Icon Coffee-dunking Oatmeal Cookies

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, January 18, 2014

Icon Coffee-dunking Oatmeal Cookies

These aren’t your grandmother’s oatmeal cookies.

When I bake cookies I usually try to use something that I’m just about out of, so I can get rid of the container. Tonight I noticed that I have what appears to be three cups of oatmeal left in the oatmeal cylinder, so, why not try some oatmeal cookies – I thought.

It’s 15 degrees out; I’m hungry and need something to dunk into milk or coffee. Not one to follow the recipe, I’ve used poetic license, thus inventing Icon Coffee-dunking Oatmeal Cookies.

Here goes.

»

Ever been on Ada, Oklahoma? It has similarities to Ada, Ohio

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 17, 2014

By Caitlin Nearhood

Here’s another Ada you probably didn’t know about.

Ada, Oklahoma, is the county seat in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and is located in south central part of the state. It’s also 90 miles from Oklahoma City. The population was 16,810 at the 2010 census, larger than our Ada. In 1891, a post office was established and the city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of Jeff Reed, the first local mail carrier and a relative of the Daggs family that first settled there.

»

Upside-down cake

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 17, 2014

A white-breasted nuthatch feasts on peanuts in its familiar upside-down eating stance in an Ada are bird feeder.

»

Ada geography bee Jan. 23

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 17, 2014

The annual Ada District Geography Bee will take place from 9:25-10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, in Ada Schools.

Participants representing:
4th grade: Ireland Marshall and Alex Scott (alternate is Morgan Dirmeyer)
5th grade: Cameron Bober and Wyatt Badertscher (alternate is Cole Anspaugh)
6th grade: Nathan Hurtig and Theo Hardesty (alternate is Michael Crouse)
7th grade: Cade Mullins and Morgan Swick (alternate is Ethan Hall)
8th grade: Logan Williams and Kiser Colley (alternate is Callie Young)

 

»

ONU presents 20th anniversary Celebration Dance Concert Feb. 1-2

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 17, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents the 20th anniversary Celebration Dance Concert, featuring the ONU Dance Company and alumni, on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m. 

The ONU Dance Company alumni, along with current members of the ONU Dance Company, have been invited to perform, teach master classes, design costumes, design lights and choreograph. 

»

Pages