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 Mercy Health – Ada Family Medicine now provides walk-in hours for medical care for wellness needs.
 
Jenelle Niese, CNP, joined by new provider, Teresa Rush, FNP, are committed to providing quality care to all members of the family, without a prior appointment. 

Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
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March 1936 State Route 81 was extended from Ada to Lima.

April 2, 1936 The Ada Business Association was formed. Ben Focht organizer, Earl Wolfrom president, George Greer vice-president, Robert C. Cole and R.C. Harris, vice presidents; Kahler, Pfeiffer, secretary; Dana Welsh, treasurer; Barton Snyder, Stewart Main, George Conn, Harry Huffman and J.R. Gibson, directors. More than 50 members signed up.

Meet Athena. She is a ten month old female lab mix. Athena weighs 44 pounds and is available now. Can you give her a forever home?

To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.

Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.

Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.

The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.

Kelley Lewis of Bellefontaine has received the 2018 Catherine Freed Outstanding Senior Female Leadership and Service Award from Ohio Northern University. Lewis, who attended Bellefontaine High School, graduated from ONU this spring with a bachelor’s degree in literature and creative writing.

 

They are our Civil War veterans

Here is the list of Civil War veterans from Ada and Liberty Township who have bricks with their names on the Railroad Park memorial.

Remarks by John Phillip Lomax, May 28, 2018

Dedication of the Memorial Bricks
at the Civil War Monument in Ada, Ohio,
on Memorial Day, May 28, 2018
Remarks
John Phillip Lomax

In his book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, James McPherson delved deeply into the letters and daily journals of Civil War soldiers in search of the motives that led them to leave their homes and march into battle.  He found them quite able to state their reasons for fighting. 

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