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What exactly are we looking at?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, November 19, 2015

By Monty Siekerman
This is another photo in our series What Are These? 

Can you identify them?

Hint, you heard them in Presser Hall.

Answer:
These are instruments used by the Percussion Ensemble in concert recently with three other ensembles.

Pictured are (clockwise from upper left) temple block, cricket call, another type of temple block, African double bell, Chinese player bowl.

If you got them all right, you earn an A+.

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New bins Arrive in advance of garbage service change

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Story and photo by Amy Eddings

With the coming of dawn on Tuesday came the dawn of a new era in Ada’s solid waste management.  Workers delivered the new, blue bins that will be used by Republic, the village’s new garbage hauler.  Republic won a three-year contract with the village after outbidding Ada’s longtime garbage service provider, Waste Management, by 37 cents per customer per year. 

The lower bid means savings for Ada’s residents, who will pay $14 per month for their solid waste management service, instead of $16.83.

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2,400 new containers in Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Ada went from a green tote town to a blue tote town on Monday when trash service for most of the village changed from Waste Management to Republic Services. Republic brought 2,400 containers to Ada to begin pickup next Monday. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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Red Cross blood drive Dec. 3 at First Mennonite Church, Bluffton

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

A Red Cross blood drive will be held Thursday, Dec. 3, from noon-6 p.m. at First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., Bluffton. Parking is available and the church is handicapped accessible.

Please call 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to redcrossblood.org, sponsor code “fmennbl” to schedule your blood donation appointment. On the day of the blood drive, be prepared to show a donor card, driver's license, or other form(s) of ID.

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ReStore hosts free community Thanksgiving meal on Nov. 24

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

ReStore will hold a free community meal for Thanksgiving from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

All are welcome. ONU faculty and staff are donating the ham and turkey.

Sugar Grove United Methodist Church members will furnish the many pies needed. More than 100 people attend each year.

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Bluffton man named administrator of Vancrest of Ada nursing home

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Photo and story by Monty Siekerman

Randy Cox of Bluffton has been named administrator of Vancrest of Ada nursing home, which is now under construction across from the school and slated to open in February.

Cox has a long history in the nursing home business starting at an early age when his parents owned a nursing home in Ottawa.

He has worked in nursing homes in Virginia, Lima and a Vancrest facility in Holgate.

The 56,000-square-foot Ada facility, located on 18 acres, will have 50 beds for skilled nursing care and 32 assisted living units.

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