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Season change this week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The leaves in the trees near McIntosh Center, the first building constructed on the West Campus, will soon turn fall colors. Autumn begins Saturday, Sept. 22. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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Indescribable Kettle Corn

Micah Barnes is earning his was through college with popcorn
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

By Monty Siekerman
Micah Barnes is earning his was through college with popcorn. He’s not growing it. He’s not detasseling it. But he’s popping it in a kettle to sell at festivals, like he did at Ada’s Harvest and Herb Fest on Saturday.

His kettle corn trailer, located in front of McDonald’s, did a brisk business, selling bags of kettle corn for up to $7 each. This young man (he’s a junior at Ohio Northern) knows his kettle corn. He began with one trailer when he was a freshman in high school. Then, with his profits, he bought two more trailers to service fairs, festivals, and sports contests in the Ashtabula County area where he grew up.

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Ada school report card on top tier of area schools

State report cards released last week for 2017-18 school year
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The Ohio Department of Education announced the school report cards on Thursday. Ada’s grade: B.

Many, many facts about how that grade was determined, where Ada is highly successful, and where Ada can Improve can be found by clicking here:

Ohio Department of Education,

Then, type in “Ada” in the search.

The grades are based upon a formula weighing 20 percent for achievement, 20 percent for progress and 15 percent each for closing gaps, graduation rates, kindergarten through third-grade literacy and prepared for success measures.

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Luke Sheets curates Lima art show

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Luke Sheets, ONU associate professor of art, curated a ceramic/sculpture show at ArtSpace/Lima which runs from now until Oct. 27. The exhibition brings together seven artists and a collection of work that evokes powerful images, shapes, compositions, and skill complexities.

Admission to the Ellen Nelson Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. and closed Sunday and Monday.

 

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Dr Roider teaches about WWI at the library

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Dr. Karl Roider is teaching a course at the Ada Public Library. This week’s session, which begins at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, will be about the USA in the war. All are welcome to attend.
His final talk on Sept. 26 will be about the end of the war. Twenty-six people attended last week’s session about trench warfare. 

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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
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July 1936 J.E. Sanderson, Ada blacksmith, put on a set of steel buggy rims for J.N. Runser. It was his first job of “setting” rims done here in more than ten years.

July 1936 the first electric fence in the Ada community was installed on the Leonard Ream farm.

July 1936 the Ada Ice Company was selling an average of ten ton of ice daily.

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