By Monty Siekerman
If you wondered where the youth of Ada were on Monday morning, you would have found many at Ada War Memorial Park for the beginning of Youth Football Camp.
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Camp Director Shawn Christopher said this year's camp is the biggest camp ever with 51 third through eighth graders and 42 high school assistants participating.
The youngsters are learning skills through drills prior to regular practice which will be at the park for Midget Football and at the school for Junior High Football.
Nope, this isn't Ada, but your parents might recognize it.
It's the Bluffton swimming pool and Buckeye quarry from the 1950s. Paul Diller snapped these photos.
The pool was on the east side of the Buckeye. It is included a bath house, baby pool, larger pool going to 5 or 6 feet, and the Buckeye quarry for persons who could pass a swim test. The Buckeye had three diving boards.
Meet Storm. Storm is a female black lab mix. She is 4 years old. Can you provide a forever home for Storm?
To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.
Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.
Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.
The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.
By Monty Siekerman
Kamron Wilkerson (left) and Dexter Woods are attending the Boy Scouts Jamboree near Beckley, W.Va.
There will be 34,000 other Scouts from 50 nations at the jamboree, which is held every four years. Thirty-six Scouts and four leaders from 16 troops of the northwest Ohio Black Swamp Council left two days early for zip lining and whitewater rafting on the New River.
The jamboree includes 10 days of outdoor activities and camping as well as water sports, climbing, mountain biking, four wheeling, hiking, zip lining, and community service.
Photos and story by Monty Siekerman
The Ada High School marching band will conclude a two-week summer camp with a free performance in the school's south parking lot at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 28.
This year's competition show involves a chess game and is titled "Chess: Rise of the Pawns."
The 26-member band and 13 color guard members will perform at the Farmers and Merchants Picnic parade and the Harvest and Herb Fest parade before playing at the home and away football games.
Lloyd A. Salyer, age 67, died on Friday, July 21, 2017 at 4:05 a.m. at his residence in Alger.
He was born on September 10, 1949 in Marshallville, Kentucky to the late Jimmie and Lorena (Patton) Salyer. On May 29, 1968 he married the love of his life Shirley Slone Salyer and she survives in Alger. Together they had two children, Rebecca (Rodney) Spencer of Waynesfield and Lloyd E. "Tee" (Cherise) Salyer of Kenton.
Lloyd had seven grandchildren he loved dearly, Colby (Alanna) Salyer, Kindsey (Shane) Salyer, Michaela Spencer, Savanna Spencer, Brianna (Michael) Kerr, Kasey Hoag, Tate Hoag and he loved Conner and Tessa Shirk like his own also.
