By Monty Siekerman
A bicycle built for two will probably get you from here to there with half the effort, but for Rob Alexander it also has another positive benefit.
Photo: Rob and his daughter Amelia riding along SR 81. The two were headed home on Monday after Amelia's volleyball camp practice at the school where she will be a sixth grader in the fall.
Rob, who heads the ONU political science department, calls the two-seater bike Tandem Talk Time.
False alarm: Monday morning in Ada, railroad crossing gates kept dropping across Main Street, even though no train was in sight. However, Ada police officers were on the scene to keep traffic moving. (Ken Collins photos)
Ada V.F.W. and American Legion sponsored Memorial Day services in Ada on Monday afternoon in Woodlawn Cemetery. Here are three views following the service.
Is it really spring if bees and dandelions are back? This photo by Ken Collins proves that those yellow "plants" coming up in Ada yards means that spring is here. And, those flying insects simply add to the fun.
There's a famous 111-year-old Ada resident getting a facelift this week. It's the building housing the Ada Herald and Body Works in the 200 block of North Main Street.
The building is also known by residents who look into the sky and see "IOOF 427 1905."
The means that the top floor of the building was one the lodge all for the Ada Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a once popular society at the turn of an earlier century.
