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Area students on Rhodes State spring dean’s list

Posted by LizGH on Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Rhodes State College, Lima, announces its dean’s list for the spring semester. 

To be eligible for this Dean’s List, a full-time student must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours and earn a 3.5 grade point average or higher.

Full-time students:
Ada
Makenna Lynn Callahan
David Thomas James Dotson
Cory Robert Kellum
Kyli Lynn Lause
Luis German Olvera
Weston Lee Robinson

Bluffton
Hannah Grace Meyer
Shelby Lynn Amsler
Kevin Bryon Childs
Victoria Rose Hover
Jesse Michael Owsley
Jacob Dylan Spencer
Shawn Michel Burkholder

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Literacy director speaks at Kiwanis meeting

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Ken Blanchard, Director of Allen County Literacy, last week spoke to the Ada Kiwanis Club about volunteering to be a literacy tutor. He noted the following statistics:

• 50% of the chronically unemployed have poor literacy skills.

• The U.S. Military spends $70 million per year in teaching basic skills to recruits.

• 75% of the U.S. prison inmates do not have a high school diploma.

• It is estimated that limited literacy costs the U.S. businesses and taxpayers $20 billion in lost business earnings, wages and taxes.

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Five Ada seniors get Ada Lions Club scholarships

Anabel Alexander, Miguel Jordan, Brendan Sheridan, Keli Trudeau, Austin Amburgey
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, May 20, 2019

The Ada Lions Club awarded academic scholarships to five members of the Ada High School graduating class of 2019 at the annual Senior Awards Honor Dinner on May in the Ada schools cafeteria.

Ada Lions Club Scholarship Chair Robert C. Simmons presented the scholarships to: Anabel Alexander-$1,000, Miguel Jordan-$1,000, Brendan Sheridan-$1,000, Keli Trudeau-$1,000, and Austin Amburgey received the Dick Counts memorial scholarship (in honor of long time Lions member who lost his life this year) $1,500.

The $5,500 of scholarships brought the total for the Lions Club since 2000 to 91 students being awarded $81,450.

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Class of '19 honors listed

Valedictorians Austin Amburgey, Jake Colwell, Brice Ferguson, Cade Mullins; Salutatorian, Miguel Jordan
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, May 16, 2019

Valedictorians and salutatorian
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Ada High School will honor its graduates of the class of 2019 on Sunday, May 26, at 2 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. 

At the Senior Honor Awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 15, it was announced that Austin Amburgey, Jake Colwell, Brice Ferguson and Cade Mullins have earned the honor of Valedictorians, while Miguel Jordan was named Salutatorian.

CLICK HERE for the list of 2019 graduates.

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Noah Beach, Sidney Faine are Defiance College graduates

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, May 16, 2019

Two Ada High School graduates were among 148 graduates awarded diplomas during the Defiance College 2019 commencement on May 4.

They are Noah Beach, cum laude, bachelor’s of science; and Sidney Faine, magna cum laude, bachelor’s of science.

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Meet Vancrest's assisted living resident in this month's spotlight

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Vancrest assisted living resident Maryan Driggers is in the Vancrest spotlight this month.

Attending school in St. Louis, she eventually became a furniture salesperson in Cincinnati. She says that her favorite occupation was being a pastor’s wife.

She and her husband, Morris, were married for 50 years. There have four children, Gary, Steve, Tom and Susan.

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