St. Mark Lutheran Church and Sugar Grove United Methodist Church will hold its "Free Community Meal" Wednesday, April 28. The meal will be served at St. Mark, 125 S. Johnson St., Ada.
The meal will be served walk up, bike up, drive up only and is free to the community. The menu includes smoked pulled pork sandwiches (smoke by one of our own members), baked beans, cole slaw, chips and fruit.
The meal runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Current safety protocols will be observed.
Story and photo by Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada tennis team won all three singles matches to knock off local Northwest Conference rival Bluffton 3-2 on a warm Monday evening at the park to register their first home win on the resurfaced courts.
The Bulldog netters evened their record at 6-6 with the victory, while the Pirates fell to 2-6 with the defeat. It was Ada's fourth win in five matches over the past eight days.
The Bulldogs and Bluffton are the only two NWC schools that field boys tennis teams.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The homestanding Ada baseball team rallied from a five-run deficit but lost 11-7 to Crestview in a seesaw Northwest Conference baseball contest Monday evening.
The Bulldog record fell to 5-8 (1-4 NWC) with the tough defeat. The Knights improved to 8-5 and 3-3 in NWC play with the win.
Crestview led 4-0 going to the bottom of the third inning. But the Bulldogs plated two runs in the home half of the third to cut the deficit in half.
The Knights pulled back in front 7-2 before Ada knotted the score with a five-run rally in the bottom of the fifth.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada softball team lost 12-1 to league-leading Crestview in Northwest Conference play Monday evening.
The Lady Bulldog record dropped to 8-8 overall and 1-4 in the NWC after their fourth consecutive defeat. The first-place Knight girls improved to 15-4 overall (6-0 NWC) with the victory.
Crestview built a 6-0 lead behind three-run home runs from Kali Small and Laci McCoy in the second inning.
Stratton Greenhouses, 9915 Lincoln Highway, and Roots by Strattons, 111 S. Main St., Bluffton, will hold a spring open house this weekend, according to Susie Stratton.
The event includes several drawings and giveaways.
Open house hours: Stratton Greenhouses -
Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Roots by Stratton's -
Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Junior John Lombardo (Solon) was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Goalkeeper of the Year, leading a list of six Ohio Northern student/athletes were named All-Ohio Athletic Conference in men's soccer for 2020-21 in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Junior Levi King (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) joined Lombardo as a First Team selection.
Senior Zach Yoder (Goshen, Ind./Northridge) and junior Caiman Moore (Linden, Mich.) were named Second Team All-Conference.
Senior Seth Gundlach (Wilmington) and junior Matt Studenic (Wadsworth) were Honorable Mention all-OAC honorees.
Billy L. Sherman, 74, passed away on Friday, April 23, 2021, at 10:24 p.m. at Mercy Health St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.
He was born on Aug. 29, 1946, in Indiana to the late Kenneth C. and Mertis Sherman. On June 13, 1973, Billy married Betty Jo Gardner and she preceded him in death on Nov. 5, 2012.
Billy retired from Bass Trucking of Ada. He was a U.S. Air Force Veteran who served during the Vietnam War. He was a member of the Ada VFW Post #9381.
With the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine now lifted, Ohio Northern University's state-sponsored mass vaccination mobile clinics will again offer the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine along with the two-dose Moderna vaccine.
Participants will be able to choose which brand they prefer to receive.
This week's HeathWise Mobile clinics will be held at:
• Marion County Fairgrounds in Marion on Tuesday, April 27
• Union County Fairgrounds in Marysville on Wednesday, April 28
• Crawford County Fairgrounds in Bucyrus on Thursday, April 29
• ONU's King Horn Field House in Ada on Friday, April 30.
