Winter weather is playing havoc with lots of last-week-of-school programs. One of those events put on hold is the Ada School Geography Bee.
According to Suzanne Hardesty, gifted coordinator/intervention specialist for Ada Schools, the Bee was planned for Dec. 17, but, it was postponed.
Hardesty said, "The National Geographic Society sponsors this bee. Ada's winner takes a timed paper-pencil test and the winners of that test continue to the Ohio Geography Bee.
Medals go to the first, second, and third place studnets and are sponsored by Ada Academic Boosters.
The grade-level champions and alternates who have qualified for the event follow:
To get to the Motor City Bowl, BGSU needed to pass a major hurdle - stop the number 14 team in the nation - Northern Illinois. The Falcons did so, and here's some photo highlights of the game played last week.
Donald Traxler took the photos and will follow the Falcons to Detroit.
John R. Nelson, 69, died Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, at 12:15 a.m. at his residence in Lima, Ohio.
He was born on Aug. 16, 1944, in Lima, Ohio, to Ralph and Freda (Curl) Nelson and they preceded him in death. He had been married to Sally Doda of Holgate. He then married Linda Sousley Roberts on Oct. 24, 2003, and she survives in Lima.
Heworked at Long's Marathon in Ada while in high school. After graduation he worked at Peerless Gas in Dunkirk and also at Lima Baldwin Hamilton. He then began his career in communications at United Telephone Service out of Lima. He retired in 2006 from Alltel Wireless in Maumee. He served in the Army National Guard from 1967-1973.
It’s Sunday in Ada, Ohio. The typical church scene unfolds with gathering people and a sense of waiting for the Christmas celebrations to begin, waiting a bit longer for the adornments of poinsettias and candelabra, waiting for the greens and nativity set, and waiting for all the special touches that come once a year.
