Ada's April 2021 blooms made the Icon gush, "Wish it could stay like this." The view is from the corner of Main and Lincoln on the steps of the Ada Presbyterian Church.
The Ohio Northern softball team has announced its 2022 schedule under sixth-year head coach Jackie Price. The Polar Bears will get their 55th season underway March 5-12 with their annual Spring Break trip to Clermont, Fla. The 10-to-12 game Spring Break schedule will be announced in February.
ONU will open its northern schedule on March 21 with a double header at Alma (Mich.) and will play a twin-bill at Calvin (Mich.) April 24.
Ohio Northern will open its home and Ohio Athletic Conference schedules with two games against Marietta on March 26 at the ONU Softball Field.
The Ada Soccer Association has posted on its Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/109277639116881/ that registration for spring youth soccer will open on January 1 and run through January 31. A link for online registration will be posted when registration opens.
Children can begin playing at the age of four.
Games begin on April 2 and practices will start in March. Tournaments are scheduled for the middle and end of May (according to age group).
The 2022 Conservation Tillage Club breakfast program series will begin on Thursday, January 13 at the Plaza Inn Restaurant in Mt. Victory. Each session will start at 7:30 am with a complimentary buffet breakfast followed by the program at 8:00 a.m. Other sessions will be held on January 27, February 10 and 24.
ONU engineering students put the course in coursework at the first annual ONU Robotics Challenge on Friday, Dec. 10, in the lobby of the James Lehr Kennedy Engineering Building.
Students battled with wheeled robots that they programmed to follow a course made up of a twisting and turning black line. Two robots from competing teams started on opposite sides of the course and the winner was the first robot to make it back to its starting position, or catch up and bump the other robot from behind.
In February 2021, Paige Cole was crowned queen and Jake Poling, king, of the 2020-21 Ada High School homecoming court. Chalk it up for the record book: two Ada H.S. homecomings in 2021.
