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• Council's agenda is attached at the bottom of this story

Ada council will act on several pieces of legislation regarding two major street projects on Tuesday, Feb. 19.

Council will consider resolutions involving agreements for:
• engineering and services for a manhole chimney reconstruction project
• material testing and services for Ream Street water replacement project
• material testing and services for Ream Street storm sewer improvements
• material testing and services for Willeke Avenue reconstruction project
• Farm lease agreement with Dan Keller

Now showing in the Elzay Gallery on the ONU campus

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Exhibition celebrates the use of self-imposed constraints on the creative process and the surprisingly innovative results that can occur.

Playing by the Rules: Artists Creating Under Constraints features the work of 6 national and international artists who have used self-imposed rules in their creative process, be it comics, short stories, paintings, or haiku’s.

The exhibit is in the Elzay Gallery of the Wilson Art Center on the ONU campus.

These artists were members of Matt Madden’s online course, Build Your Own Labyrinth offered through the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the works on view are samples of the results of this course.

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By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Columbus Grove earned a share of the Northwest Conference girls basketball crown with a 66-15 victory over Ada Thursday evening in the regular season finale.

Ada finished 1-20 overall and 0-8 in the NWC with the defeat. Meanwhile, Grove improved to 16-5 and ended up 7-1 in the NWC to tie Bluffton for the league crown with the decisive win.

CG came into its final league game tied atop the league standings with Spencerville and Bluffton at 6-1. Crestview was close behind at 5-2.

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Frank J. Burkholder, 76, died on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, at 8 p.m., at his residence in Alger. 

He was born on Jan. 15, 1943, in Bluffton, Ohio, to the late Sidney and Cleora (Amstutz) Burkholder. On April 11, 1968, Frank married Terrall A. Lambert and she survives in Alger.

Frank was a farmer.  He was a U.S. Army veteran. 

Also surviving is his daughter, Valerie Stoneburner of Anderson, Ind.; two grandchildren: Ashley and Ryan Stoneburner; a brother, Roger Burkholder of Alger; and two sisters: Mary Ellen (Russell) Ludwig of Findlay and Janet (Dennis) Nagy of Piqua.

He was preceded in death by a sister, LaDonna Meyer.

Registration underway now

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The spring New Leaf newsletter is attached at the bottom of this story. It features “seed starting indoors.”

New Leaf Garden Center will hold a spring gardening seminar in its Ada store on Saturday, March 2.  Persons interested in attending should register now due to space limitations. 

The seminar schedule follows:
10 a.m. – The top 75 plants that every homeowner should consider

11 a.m. – Succulents

Noon – Soup, salad and scrumptious bread

1:30 p.m. – Bee Nice to your bees

International play fest’ at The Freed Center

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Ohio Northern University’s Department of Theatre Arts will present The International Play Festival: India from Thursday to Sunday, Feb. 21 to Feb. 24, in the Stambaugh Studio Theatre of the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 21, Feb. 22 and Feb. 23 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 23 and Feb. 24. A question-and-answer session with the directors and company will be held following the Feb. 24 performance.

Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for seniors and $20 for adults. To order, visit freedcenter.com or call the box office at 419-772-1900.

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