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Ada HS Sociology students reinvent Spirit Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Ada schools is in the midst of “Spirit Week.” It’s a result of a Sociology class discussion led by teacher Kristin Salyer. 

Adults reading this may have a different concept of “high school spirit” from their own school days than students of today have.

Students in Salyer’s junior and senior Sociology class at Ada High School recently focused on collective behavior. From that a discussion started on how and why social movements form.

Salyer said, “In one particular discussion, I gave students an assignment to talk to their parents about generational differences.

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Happy 104th birthday, Naudean!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Naudean Amidon (right) will celebrate her 104th birthday on Friday. On her left is Agnes Crates, 102. The women played Bingo on Wednesday as they do each month at Community Health Professionals. Click here for a video of "Happy Birthday," sung to Naudean by her Bingo pals.

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Someone you know is on the Ada honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Here's the Ada school honor roll for the second nine-week grading period.

FOURTH GRADE ALL A:  Jackson Brown, Abid Khan, Autumn Andreasen, Olivia Burkhart, Dakota Gossman, Luke Limer, Ella Marshall and Josie Phillips

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ONU's Super Bowl Countdown offers fan prep for the game

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Have a Super Bowl question?

Ohio Northern University’s Super Bowl Countdown will provide football fans with lots of preparation in anticipation of this year’s game. The program, titled “ONU’s Super Bowl Countdown…Beyond the Broadcast,” is free and open to the public.

The Countdown is from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, in the McIntosh Center Activities Room.

Speakers include:
• Dean Paul, ONU head football coach. He will discuss halftime and sideline adjustments anticipated in the game.

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Please, don't eat the daffodils

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

A rodent in a Pennsylvania berg indicated this morning that North America is in for an early spring. That's good news unless you like to ski, skate, or own a lodge on a hill. However, a local golden retriever predicts just the opposite, as she saw her shadow in Railroad Park at sunrise, meaning we are in for more cold weather. For more on the story, click here. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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Groundhog's Day in Ada and look what's coming up

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

By Monty Siekerman

A rodent in a Pennsylvania berg indicated this morning that North America is in for an early spring.

That's good news unless you like to ski, skate, or own a lodge on a hill.

However, a local golden retriever predicts just the opposite, as she saw her shadow in Railroad Park at sunrise, meaning we are in for more cold weather.

But the retriever, named Abby, is a pup and hasn't learned all there is to know about prognostication.

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