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Harvest and Herb queen candidate details here

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Ada High School junior and senior girls (ages 16 to 18) are invited to enter this year’s Harvest and Herb Festival Queen contest. This year’s festival is Saturday, Sept. 17.

Applications forms are at the bottom of this story and in the Ada High School office. The application deadline is 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 7. Judging takes place at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 11, in the second floor conference rooms in McIntosh Center at Ohio Northern University.

Contestants will complete three brief essays on:

• If you were to support a special cause or offer to volunteer for a special organization, which would it be and why?

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What did you read this summer - and look at all these announcements from Ada schools

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Summer is over, but the Ada school library wants to know what Ada students read over the summer. There's a contest with prizes involved.

Students are invited to stop in the media centerfor contest details and your chance to win. Students and staff will also be entered into a drawing for any new books checked out between now and Friday, Aug. 26.

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Extra dinners available while they last at Boosters Aug. 26 barbecue

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Tuesday, August 23, 2016

There will be extra dinners available for the Ada Music Boosters annual barbecue on Friday, Aug. 26, before Ada’s first home football game with USV.  

To ensure you get a dinner, tickets can be pre-ordered through the Music Booster web page at www.AdaMusicBoosters.org. 

Dinners will be available at the Ada Park on Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.; simply drive up in your car to be served.

The Ada Music Boosters chicken barbecue features a complete dinner for $8 each.

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Family of crafters opens store in downtown Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 22, 2016

By Amy Eddings
Note: Ada chamber members held a "broom presentation" last week to the owners of Crafted by Us.

The "us" in Crafted by Us at 117 S. Main St., the newest business to open in Ada's historic downtown, is a trio of creative women: Terry Sayre, 48, and her daughters Brittany Galens, 28, and Marquita Metzger, 19.  

"We all just wanted a store," said Sayre,  "We just never had one."

The threesome, from Holland, a village west of Toledo, said they've talked for years of having a place to display and sell their handiwork.  

Terry paints and loves to re-purpose flea market finds.

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The Pride of Ada has a new look

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, August 21, 2016

By Monty Siekerman

It's done!

The painting and renovation of the Pennsy caboose in the Railroad Park downtown is finished. Mayor Dave Retterer will rededicate the new-looking railcar at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, during Harvest and Herb Fest. All are welcome to attend.

Here, Daphnie Shaw, 4, gives her approval. She is the daughter of Rob and Brittany Shaw.

Children love to climb the stairs, peek in the windows, and turn the clanky-clank wheel. The caboose has a new roof, new lettering, was repainted inside and out, and glass windows were installed.

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Auditions set for Miss Vicki's Music Studio's JubilHeirs

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, August 19, 2016

Vicki Mills of Miss Vicki's Music Studio, Ada, announces that The JubilHeirs – a choir for singers ages 12 – 25, will now meet on Monday evenings from 6 – 8 p.m. 

"This auditioned, 4-plus-part treble voiced choir begins its fourth season on Sept. 19.  The JubilHeirs learn a variety of music, both sacred and secular," she told The Icon.

Recent performances in Ada and Findlay included songs from Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera, as well as international folk songs in Japanese and French.

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