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

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.

ONU Pharmacy Associate Dean completes leadership program

Dr. Kelly Shields, associate dean at the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, recently completed the American Association Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP). The year-long fellowship began in July 2015, and finished with a commencement ceremony on July 23, 2016, at the AACP Annual Meeting in Anaheim Calif.

Boys' soccer: It's Ada over Miller City 9-3

Ada High School boys' soccer team crushed Miller City 9-3 in recent action. Chris Reyes is in the photo above. Vickie Garmon took these game photos.

Below:
• Johnathon Rettig
• Logan Williams
• Noah Pinkney
• Blaine Dearth (in an earlier match)
 

Here are the winners in the Kiwanis Club pedal tractor pull

Here are winners of the Ada Kiwanis Club pedal tractor pull held Aug. 13 at the Ada Farmers and Merchants Picnic.

There were three classes, with a total of 36 competitors.

The results are as follows:
Class 1, (Ages 3 & 4, with 9 competitors)
1st, Kinzer Scoles, 4, Bluffton
2, Kadreye Scoles, 4, Bluffton
3rd, Colton Crawford, 4, Ada
4th, Maura Johnson, 3, Bluffton

Ada Depot garden tour

A little drizzle doesn't stop gardeners from gardening or learning more about plants.

During a light shower last week the members of the Kenton Garden Club toured the Ada Depot gardens. Gardener Monty Siekerman explained how the downtown garden originated and told about some of the plants.

There are more than 100 varieties of annuals and perennials. Some of his new favorites this year include banana tree and pentas.

Once upon a time in Ada: Read what happened in Ada in the 1880s

Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
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July 5, 1883 - the Carmen Post No. 101 Grand Army of the Republic was formed.

December 8, 1883 - The Home Savings Building and Loan association was chartered, with Albert B. Charles as secretary, treasurer.

1884 - the law college at Ohio Northern University was formed.

Feb. 1-2, 1884 - the first farmers institute was held at Ada.

Feb. 1885 - the first house numbers were being used.

June 14, 1886 - the first ordinances against liquors sales passed.

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