Watch the Icon next week for more door photos -
Adoring doors.
One of the Ada school holiday traditions is a door decorating contest, with over 30 doors competing for prizes.
The judging criteria incluees class participation, neatness, amount of the door covered, theme and creativity, and which door speaks to your holiday heart.
A three-team judging panel of David Retterer, Ada mayor, Rhett Grant, Ada Public Library director, and Fred Steiner, Ada Icon editor, chose this year’s winners, which follow:
Grand champion K-2 –Meghan Kosier
Grand champion 3-5 – Julie Burris
The bulldog in the Ada High School office enjoys the holidays as much as any of the teachers, staff and students. This month it is decked out with a Santa cap. You'll find it on the shelf above all the action that takes place in the high school office.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Visiting Bluffton pulled away late from spunky local rival Ada to post a deceptive 60-39 Northwest Conference girls basketball win Thursday night.
The purple and gold cut Bluffton's lead to 40-33 early in the fourth quarter when sophomore guard Kirsten Poling drained a right side 17-footer.
But then the Lady Pirates reeled off 12 unanswered points to secure a 52-33 margin with just over three minutes left, sealing the verdict. Playing well in transition, Bluffton wore down short-handed Ada to win the fourth quarter by a 20-8 count.
Two ONU student athletes received all-American honors for participation in fall sports.
Chelsea Hupper - volleyball
Ohio Northern senior middle hitter Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) was named First Team Academic All-America in volleyball for 2019 in voting conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
She becomes only the second player in ONU history to be named First Team Academic All-America and the first since Liz Schnelle in 2009.
Huppert is the only Polar Bear volleyball player to be named Academic All-America two years in a row after earning Second team honors as a junior in 2018.
