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Homecoming Week at Ada HS!

Wear your PJs to school Monday; bonfire Wednesday; parade Friday
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, September 23, 2016

Ada High School students launched a weeklong-plus celebration of its 2016 homecoming with a Friday afternoon pep rally.

The official homecoming week is Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. Here’s a list of events planned.

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Wilson's Sporting Good football garage sale Saturday

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 22, 2016

The Wilson Sporting Goods football garage sale is from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 24, Liberty Street, Ada. The sale includes hundreds of footballs, baseball gloves, shoes, clothes, tennis items and additional sporting good items.

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Take a hike

Or in this case a nature walk around Ada with the library
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 22, 2016

Story and photos by Monty Siekerman

The Canadian geese, mallard ducks, black swans, colorful koi and ugly, big carp were well fed Tuesday morning during a nature walk for young children sponsored by the Ada Public Library.

On a sunny morning, 14 youngsters and their parents met at the pond near the Freed Center to feed (and sometimes chase) the feathered friends and throw morsels from the bridge into the water for the fish. The ducks scampered about and so did the kids.

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Even the black swans, known for chasing humans and dogs who pass by, were friendly - they wanted the food.

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Ada is a real railraod community

Re-dedicated caboose ceremony recognizes many players in the story
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 22, 2016

Ada's Pennsylvania Railroad caboose 477779 was re-dedicated on Sept. 17 during the Harvest and Herb Festival. Here are the remarks Dave Retterer, Ada mayor, made during the event.

By Ada Mayor Dave Retterer
Remarks at the dedication of the Ada Caboose Project, Sept. 17, 2016

The Ada Caboose project brought this caboose here in 1989. The scrapbooks that document the initial caboose project are available for your inspection. The caboose itself cost $2,000 in 1989 and much more time and money has been spent on restoring and maintaining it over the years. We are here today to mark the completion of the second restoration of this caboose.

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Application for Marathon pipeline would pass through Village of Ada groundwater supply

Mayor: "Pipeline does not seem to raise a lot of red flags, but we are concerned with anything passing through our groundwater supply"
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Ada CIC members learned that Marathon Oil has filed an application with the Ohio EPA for construction of a 49-mile petroleum pipeline.

The proposed pipeline route passes through the Village of Ada’s groundwater supply.

David Retterer, Ada mayor, told CIC members that the proposed pipeline location does not seem to raise a lot of red flags, but that the village is concerned with anything passing through or over its groundwater supply.

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Putting Ada on the (Google) map

Wilson's business class updating info on Ada businsses, industries and churches
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 20, 2016

By Monty Siekerman

A business class taught by Dr. Jimmy Wilson is updating information about Ada businesses, industries, and churches on Google Maps.

Businesses in town come and ago, especially those who rent storefronts on Main Street. Information about them has been out of date for several years. Several businesses have opened in new structures, such as Vancrest and Ada Family Medicine.

That has all changed.

Ada's industries, churches, parks, and government buildings have been relatively unchanged, but that information has been updated, as well, if needed.

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