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.
The Village of Ada has announced a refuse rate increase. Rumpke refuse rates will be increasing by $2.00 with the December 2021 utility billing cycle.
The rate has been $17.25 each month and will increase to $19.25 as per ordinance #2021-2. Village council approved this increase on October 5.
The Municipal Building will be closed on Monday, January 3, 2022.
If you have a water or sewer emergency when the offices are closed, contact the Hardin County Sheriff at 419-673-1268. Dispatch will contact the Ada Public Works Department. In such an event, $48.00 fee is added onto the resident's water bill.
Mitch Albon's new novel “The Stranger in the Lifeboat” (Harper Collins: ISBN978-0-06-288834) is a conundrum and mystery. Is it a discussion about God, or is it a study into the human condition? It is both.
A $200,000 yacht explodes in the middle of the ocean. All that's left behind is a raft containing ten people. They are a mixed group containing men and women and a young girl named Alice.
And then they are confronted by a man floating in the water three days after the explosion. When he's pulled into the raft someone says, “Thank the Lord we found you.” The man whispers back, “I am the Lord.”
