The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce elected officers for 2013 during its Dec. 19 meeting. Officers are:
• Deb Curlis, president
• Vicki Woleke, vice president
• Alisa Armbrecht, secretary-treasurer
Three members of the Ada Police Department were recognized during its anual Christmas party and awards banquet held Dec. 14, according to Michael Harnishfeger, police chief.
Sgt. Mike Bollinger was selected as Ada Police Employee of the Year. Bollinger is a 12-year veteran of the Ada Police Department and was given the award through his commitment and dedication to the department and to the residents of Ada.
Patrolman Josh Howbert was given a commendation fo his work as property and evidence custodian.
Dispatcher Angela Dankworth was honored for her work in designing a new police patch for the agency.
Dale E. Albright, 87, died at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 20, 2012, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born March 15, 1925, in Convoy to the late Eli and Minnie (Upp) Albright.
On Nov. 5, 1948, he married Doris L. Edds and she died Dec. 29, 2005. He retired from Ex-Cello Corporation, Bluffton as personnel manager. He was co-owner with his wife of Albright’s Antiques and had also worked at the Lima Ordinance Depot where he played on a very successful semi-professional baseball team. He was a member of First United Methodist Church, Bluffton; was an avid bridge player and graduated from Mendon High School.
Don’t’ know what it is – Eartha Kitt asking for a ’54 convertible, too, light blue, or, Perry Como claiming he met a man from Tennessee going to Pennsylvania for some home made pumpkin pie.
Whatever the tune, when I hear it my mind goes in fast reverse, landing somewhere in late December between 1956 and ’60.
Suddenly I am in elementary school, standing in the downtown Lima Public Square on the final Saturday before Christmas. The place is packed; the word “mall” is not yet in our vocabulary.
This trip occurs often this time of year, thanks to Eartha, Perry and other Christmas vocalists from the pre-Beatle era.
The Ada Icon has enhanced its high school sports coverage this week. The Icon now offers a link to the Northwest Conference league website. The site is easily accessible on the bottom left of the Icon home page.
The site includes up-to-the-day coverage of all NWC teams, scores, league standings and links to several other area league websites.
In addition it provides historical data and stats from the individual Northwest Conference schools. Click here to view the website, or find the NWC logo on the bottom left of the home page.
If the North Pole were your head and the South Pole your feet, today your head would be too cold and your feet too warm. That's a metaphor for the axial tilt of the earth on this day, with all of us north of the equator experiencing our shortest winter day and everyone south the longest summer day.
On this day you will have your longest noon shadow of the year. Assuming any sun comes out at all today. After today daylight in our hemisphere increases faster the farther north you are.
Note: This was originally posted on The Blufton Icon (Ada's sister publication) www.blufftonicon.com. We thought that anyone whose brother has turned 70 may appreciate this.
Sorry, can’t recall my first-ever meeting with Abraham Rudolf Steiner. Probably because of a focus on the larger question: “How did I get here?”
I do know it was Nov. 9, 1949. Thanks to my baby book, the roll of visitors on my first day in Bluffton includes the name “A.R.” Steiner.
He was 7; I had yet to experience my first-ever sundown.
A.R. claims he can’t remember our first meeting either, so, I don’t feel that bad.
The West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church has requested that all churches within the conference ring their bells 26 times at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, in memory of the victims who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. last Friday.
This will be happening in solidarity with the churches of Connecticut, which will all be ringing their bells at that same time.
The English Chapel at ONU will be participating in this observance.
-Four players scored in double figures as the No. 15 Ohio Northern women's basketball team defeated Otterbein by a 71-43 score at the Rike Center on Wednesday night.
With the win, the Polar Bears improve to 10-1 and remain a perfect in OAC play at 5-0, while the Cardinals fall to 6-3, 2-2.
Senior Morgan Dumbaugh led Northern with 13 points.
Junior Cenzie Yoder and freshman Brooke Espenschied each scored 12, while senior Joannna Snyder chipped in with 11.
The Polar Bears had a lead for the majority of the first half and found themselves ahead 31-23 with 34 seconds left in the first half.
