While donors across the country have rolled up a sleeve to give this summer, the need for blood and platelets remains crucial for patients relying on lifesaving transfusions. The American Red Cross continues to experience a severe blood shortage and donors of all blood types – especially type O and those giving platelets – are urged to make an appointment to give now.
Right now, the Red Cross needs to collect more than 1,000 additional blood donations each day to meet current demand as hospitals respond to an unusually high number of traumas and emergency room visits, organ transplants and elective surgeries.
More than 150 riders toured Bluffton and Ada countryside as part of the seventh annual Ride to Remember. Proceeds from the annual event go toward building additional bike paths in the area.
The father of a former Ada clergy person, Joseph Hughes Yeakel, Retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church, 93, died, July 4, 2021 at the Danbury Woods Senior Living Center, Wooster, OH.
Joe was born March 12, 1928, in Mahanoy City, PA, to the late Claude H. and Florence M. (Hughes) Yeakel. Joe married Lois Josephine Shank of Waynesboro, PA in 1948.
Evan Smittle of Ada was part of the talented cast and crew in the Baldwin Wallace University and Playhouse Square collaborative production of "BARS (Beatboxing, Acting, Rapping, Singing)" during the spring 2021 semester.
Smittle, a graduate of Ada High School, served as a member of the arts management producing team in the production.
The Ada swim team finished fifth overall in the combined boys/girls standings at the 39th annual Elks Invitational Western Ohio Aquatics League championship meet July 9-10 in Kenton.
The Ada boys came home a solid fourth, while the Alligator girls ended up sixth in the eight-team event.
Bluffton swept the boys, girls and combined team titles at the annual event.
Carlie Oldfield (girls 15-18), Kyleigh Nau (girls 6 and under), Chloe Kemmere (girls 11-12), Lily Baumgartner (girls 13-14) and Eli Esguerra (boys 11-12) each won one individual race for Ada in their respective age brackets.
