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Ada students among Aktion Club scholar winners

Hardin Pioneer Aktion Club recently presented five $250 scholarships  to five Hardin County students. 

The Aktion Club started this scholarship five years ago to help youth further their education. 

Applicants write an essay on how would they make a life better for a person who has disabilities. The scholarship committee reviewed all applicants and selected these winners. 

This is the first year that the club has had five scholarships due to their successful fundraisers.

17-day Ada stay for Cadets

It looked like a circus arrived in town Sunday night with three busses and assorted trucks and trailers.

The Cadets drum and bugle corps are here for the second year to prepare their show for audiences across the U.S.

No, those debarking the buses are not refugees but are highly-selected performers carrying their personal belongings into ONU residence halls for their 17-day stay in Ada. (Monty Siekerman photo)

'59 grad Joe Carey joins Ada High School Hall of Honor

Photo and story by Monty Siekerman

Once you graduate from Ada High School, you don't know where in the world life will take you.

For Joe Carey (right), life took him to Mansfield where he taught for 31 years then, in "retirement," he joined the Peace Corps where he taught in the Russia Far East for two years, then to Lithuania where he taught four summers, then to Kazakhstan where he taught a year.

Joe, Class of 1959, was inducted into the AHS Hall of Honors during the annual alumni association dinner held at the school on Saturday evening.

At left is Kurt Klingler, association president, who reported 120 people attended the dinner.

Hardin County dairy beef feeder queen contest now open

The Hardin County Dairy Beef Feeder queen contest in open to all girls 14 years and older (as of Jan. 1), who are currently enrolled in 4-H or FFA with a dairy beef (feeder or steer) project. 

To be eligible to compete, a member must fill out the application, complete the essay and participate in an interview.  Applicants will also be given a test over breeds, body parts, and general questions that pertain to the project.

The winner will represent the dairy beef feeder youth and also be recognized at the crowning of the Hardin County Fair King and Queen Ceremony in front of the grandstand at the fair. 

Ada Kiwanis members tour Pierstorf Pharmacy Museum

Bob McCurdy gave Ada Kiwanis Club members a guided tour of the Pierstorf Pharmacy Museum, located in the College of Pharmacy on the ONU campus on May 31.

The museum was donated by Dr. Clarence H. Pierstorf and Dr. and Mrs. Ervin W. Pierstorf and dedicated on Oct. 13, 1995.

The historical museum is located on the first floor of the Pierstorf Annex on the east side of the college.

Unique to the university and most other colleges of pharmacy in the nation, the museum includes memorabilia that reflects the profession's rich heritage.

And the trophy goes to the school staff

The annual Crosstown Softball Championships pitted the school staff against the safety services last week at the Ada diamonds.

School staff celebrated a 33 to 7 win in softball. Pictured are (from left) Robin VanBuskirk, school; Gayle Gillham, EMT; Andrew Peterman, police; Jeremy Sleesman, fire. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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