By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
In 1971, songwriter and recording artist John Denver released an album titled Poems, Prayers & Promises. On this album, he had a release called Sunshine on My Shoulders. The length of this song on the album precluded its play on the radio so the single was remixed with one less verse and released in 1974. The song hit number one on the U.S. and Canadian charts.
John Denver was known for his acoustic folk music and was one of the best-selling artists in this genre. He recorded over 300 songs in his lifetime with approximately 200 being written by the artist himself. Denver’s songs transcended multiple genres and he could be heard on different types of radio stations. Many of his hits are still played today such as Take Me Home, Country Road and Rocky Mountain High. Country Roads was adopted in 2007 as the official state song of West Virginia, while Colorado legislated Rocky Mountain High as one of their official songs in 2007.
The Ada High School football team plays a completely new foe in unbeaten Buckeye Central at New Washington in Crawford County this Friday, September 1, in week three.
The road trip is an approximate 65-mile one-way jaunt.
On August 30, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced 13 individuals who will serve on his newly formed Ohio School Bus Safety Working Group.
Governor DeWine announced the creation of the working group last week following the death of 11-year-old Aiden Clark, a Northwestern Local School District student who was killed when another vehicle collided with his school bus in Clark County.
Rogeta L. “Geta” Fruchey, age 64, of Ada, passed away on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, at 4:50 p.m. at Vancrest of Ada.
Geta was born on May 10, 1959, in Van Wert, Ohio to the late Roger and Wilva (Stuckey) Bair. On July 23, 2015, Geta married Joe Fruchey and he preceded her in death on January 4, 2022.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will observe Ohio’s third annual Overdose Awareness Day on Thursday, Aug. 31. Established in 2021 by Senate Bill 30, Ohio Overdose Awareness Day aims to raise public awareness and remember the lives lost to the ongoing national opioid epidemic. It also helps usher in September as Recovery Month.
UPDATE: Clayton McClain scored the Ada goal off a hooking corner kick from Logan Jolliff.
By Cort Reynolds
The Ada High School boys soccer team kicked off Northwest Conference play at backyard rival Allen East with a 2-1 loss Monday evening, August 28, in the back half of a girls/boys doubleheader at Goodwin Field.
Ada fell to 2-2-1 overall and 0-1 in the NWC with the tough defeat.
Ohio Northern University is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends ONU in the new edition of its annual college guide, The Best 389 Colleges: 2024 Edition.
