By Darlene Bowers
Welcome to the Ada Icon’s “Ada Teacher Feature.” Here we share thoughts and insights from local teachers who lift up and inspire our students. Let us lift up and inspire these educators as well. Today we meet Christa Preston.
It is easy to see Christa Preston’s passion for teaching children. Read on to learn her best tip for something parents/caregivers can do to help students and also to learn of this Ada High School graduate’s compassion exquisitely revealed in the sharing of her most memorable teaching moment.
All is quiet for the moment on Simon Street. Ken Collins, Icon photographer, took a night photograph of the equipment parked in the street project underneath a street light. It is a very quiet photo.
A gallery reception for artists in the current exhibit at Elzay Gallery, ONU, takes place at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 28. The show features works by The All Weather Gang, painters of western New York.
William Mancuso of the ONU art faculty describe the artists this way:
"The All Weather Gang is a group of diverse individuals – think aerospace
engineer and English teacher to graphic designer and owner of a construction company – from Western New York State who have met almost every Saturday for decades to go outdoors and paint in weather that at times would give even the U.S. Postal Service reason to reconsider.
