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Over 200 area high school leaders clean up the town - in a manner of speaking

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, June 7, 2015

Eleven high school students attending a leadership conference on campus helped garden for four hours on Saturday at the Railroad Depot Park, including Chase Wagoner from Carey (left) and Thomas Shauk from Galion.

More than 200 students fanned out throughout the village to assist the village, homeowners, and businesses with chores.  ONU hosts the four-day HOBY conference annually in early June.

A part of each year is devoted to assisting the local community. The purpose of the conference is to teach leadership skills to outstanding youth.
(Monty Siekerman)

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You can watch "Frozen" under the Ada stars on Friday night

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, June 4, 2015

Outdoor movies in Ada! That's right. And the first show is Friday!

Three family-oriented outdoor movies will be shown this summer on the Ohio Northern Univesity tundra sponsored by The Freed Center for the Performing Arts and Bluffton Hospital.

The movies and dates are:
Friday, June 5 - Frozen
Friday, July 3 - Toy Story
Friday, Aug. 7 - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Movies are shown at dusk. Popcorn and beverages are avialable for purchase. Families are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy the movies under the stars.

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Here's this year's Ada Lions Club Ada HS scholarship award winners

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 1, 2015

The Ada Lions Club has donated $60,000 to 67 students since their first scholarship were awarded in 2000.   

Projects like the Ada Lions Club Mulch Project has been one of the many projects that have funded this great community project. A committee of Lions members select the Ada High School students for these awards.

Student winners this year are, front from left: Haley Jenkins, Gabrielle Rall, Quinn High,   Caralee Stover and Alexis Amburgey.

Back row from left, Abby Petersen, Tori Wyss, Cort Everhart, Levi Bass, Lion Bob Simmons and Lion Chad Hays.

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Say it ain't so - staff members with decades of experience saying goodbye to Ada schools

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, May 20, 2015

“Happy retirement!” reads the poster in the school.

The message carries a lot of weight. More than you realize.

Seven staff members with over 117 years of combined experience will leave the school system at the end of the school year.

PHOTOS COMPLIMENTS OF THE ADA BULLDOGS FACEBOOK PAGE.

They are listed with the number of years in the Ada system or years of teaching experience, plus their present Ada position.

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The end of the caboose, Crusader and rock are at hand

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, May 7, 2015

Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Amy Rose and Tim Laubis are into rescues...not the usual pet rescues but they have saved a caboose and a statue from the trash heap.

And, for their engagement, Tim gave Amy Rose a rock...literally, a 16-ton rock, but more about that later.

The caboose has been on their property since 2007; the statue of a Crusade knight on a horse has been there since 2009.

Both have had considerable notice by passersby the past few years since their property is located on busy State Route 81, just east of the school.

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Just dandy...lowly, despised, unwanted, et cetera

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Dandelions...
* Eat them. Certain varieties, usually the long-stemed ones, are used as salad greens, soups, wines, and teas. When cooking, blanch them or saute them to make them more tasty.

* The roasted root is used as a coffee substitute. It's caffeine-free.

* It's one of the ingredients of root beer.

* Provides nectar and pollen for bees and some butterflies.

* Adds nitrogen to the soil.

* Dandelion is an herb used for many conditions, such as loss of appetite, upset stomach, intestinal gas, gallstones, joint pain, muscle aches, eczema, and bruises, laxative, skintoner, blood tonic, and digestive tonic, virus, cancer.

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