BLUFFTON - Ada co-hosted a four-team Northwest Conference match Tuesday at the Bluffton Golf Course, which was won by Bluffton.
The Pirates won with 178 strokes, followed closely in second by Lincolnview (182). Allen East shot 207 and Ada finished fourth with 252 strokes.
"We played well," said Ada head coach Jason Campbell. "We are getting scores consistently in the high 50s and mid-60s. That's a big jump from last season. I am proud of the progress the team is making."
Ada loves a parade. And, the 104th Farmers and Merchants Picnic parade was one to remember. Please enjoy Monty Siekerman's parade photos. If you look hard enough you might find someone you know here.
Remember your first day of school as a first grader?
That experience was felt again this morning in the Ada Schools. First graders all the way to seniors said goodbye to summer and hello to the 2017-18 school year.
The Icon roamed the school halls and captured some of the pre-8:15 a.m. moments.
You'll see photos of students waiting in the cafeteria, waiting outside, meeting their teacher and finding their classroom.
Make certain you watch the video as the school doors open for the first time.
Carl Judson, the original “Guerrilla Painter,” will give a plein air painting presentation at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 17, in the Wilson Fine Arts building on the ONU campus.
He is the creator of unique plein air painting boxes – sometimes called outdoor painting.
William Mancuso said, “Carl has been a plein air painter for over 30 years, and is interested in helping others find ways of integrating plein air painting more fully into people’s daily lives.”
He added: “This all relates back to the time of the Impressionists when painting became portable and a new interest in diverse subject matter exploded onto the stage.”
Ohio Northern University will put active learning and community involvement into practice with the annual Ada Community Engagement (ACE) Day beginning at 10 a.m. on Aug. 19.
The program is designed to engage incoming students with their college home and provide opportunities for ONU’s first-year students to contribute to the village and surrounding communities.
University members will travel to several individual residences to help with projects such as weeding, mulching and painting.
Thank you for all you do to promote the Hardin County Red Cross Learn To Swim program.
Our classes were full this year. We even had 2 Level 1 (Beginner) Classes because of the requests/registrations and for the first time in quite a while we had a very advanced class of Level 5.
Without your help to get the word out to the public each year this program would not reach so many students.
The Ohio Northern men's soccer team was picked to finish second in the conference in the Ohio Athletic Conference coaches preseason poll, voted on by the leagues 10 coaches.
Northern finished second in both the OAC regular season and tournament standings, after posting a 17-2-4 record overall and finishing 6-1-2 in the OAC.
The Polar Bears finished second in the voting with 43 points, behind 2016 OAC Regular Season and Tournament champions John Carroll, who gathered 54 points and nine first place votes, while Capital was picked to finish third with 41 points and the final first place vote.
Only the top six vote-getters were mentioned in the poll.
The Ohio Northern women's soccer team has been picked to finish first in the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season standings, voted on by the leagues 10 coaches.
Only the top six vote-getters were mentioned in the poll.
Northern finished first in the poll with 54 points and nine first place votes, while Capital finished second in the poll with 37 points and Otterbein rounded out the top-3 with 33 points.
Northern claimed the OAC Regular Season title in 2016 before falling in the OAC Tournament Championship game.
The Polar Bears finished 15-4-0 overall in 2016 and 8-1-0 in the OAC standings.
The Ohio Northern University observatory will be open to the public to view “The Great American Solar Eclipse” from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21. The observatory is located on the west side of campus, off of Lincoln Avenue and near the baseball field.
“We will not experience totality in Ada, but the sun will be covered up to 85 percent,” said Jason Pinkney, Ph.D., professor of physics and astronomy and manager of the ONU observatory.
