The Ada boys summer swim team finished a strong third at the 40th annual Western Ohio Aquatic League championship meet Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, in the Wapakoneta Community Pool.
Lady Alligator Lily Baumgartner captured first in three events. She broke a pair of eight-year old meet records previously held by Emily Murphy in the 100 individual medley and the 50 butterfly. She also swam a leg for the winning Ada 15-18 medley relay quartet, and finished second to teammate Claire Kemmere in the 100 freestyle on Saturday.
The Hardin County Astronomy Club is hosting a "First Light" viewing event on Tuesday, July 12 to celebrate that day’s unveiling of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The event begins at 5:00 p.m. in the Veterans Meeting Hall at the courthouse in Kenton, and all are welcome to attend.
The telescope was launched in December last year and spent 30-days traveling to its permanent observing location, approximately one million miles from Earth. NASA's Webb Telescope team has spent the past several months running tests and calibrating the telescope's instrumentation.
In partnership with Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center, Ohio Northern University’s Healthwise Mobile Clinic, which provides health and wellness services to regional residents, will be adding Our Daily Bread community center, 125 S. Central Ave., Lima, as a monthly clinic location.
What hasn't been written about Nikola Tesla in the past century? Books and documentaries abound around the genius of the inventor, and even Marc J. Seifer, the writer of this non-fiction tome had published a previous book in 1999, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla. But this book, Wizard at War (Kensington Publishing Corp. ISBN 978-8065-4096-2) to be released at the end of August 2022, takes on a narrower subject, as it chronicles the inventions that interested the military of more than one country.
In my constant reading and search for more historical and sports knowledge, I came across an interesting bit of hoop history tied to Ada in a book I bought this spring.
As a native of Indiana and lifelong player, chronicler and historian of the game, I am always looking for new information on basketball history.
My extensive personal library has hundreds of basketball books, dozens of biographies, many old Basketball Digest and Street and Smith's magazines, annual handbooks, and other team histories, as well as some of my own self-published trivia game books.
On Thursday, July 7, members of the Ada Rotary Club gathered with Ruth Roider at the Butterfly Garden located at the Ada Pennsylvania Station and Railroad Park. The club supported the creation of the Butterfly Garden and Roider painted a sign identifying the project. The flowers and milkweed plants should bring more butterflies, especially Monarch butterflies, to the Ada area.
