2016 Red Cross Learn To Swim Program is completed for this summer. 62 students participated in the 10 hot days of lessons! We had great weather this year.
I would like to thank the Village of Ada for the facility to hold the lessons. The water was wonderful, the pool area was always clean and ready for our use and the lifeguards were very attentive to the swimmers. The pool staff had the facility open and ready for the volunteers and swimmers every morning.
Family members of former Ohio Northern University professor and women’s athletics pioneer Dr. Helen Spar Ludwig have made a $508,000 gift to support the scholarship fund that bears her name.
James “Jim” Ludwig, Helen’s son, passed away in April 2015 and requested that the remaining value from the 2010 sale of his farm in Dola, Ohio, be directed to ONU.
Jim Ludwig’s brother Gary Ludwig, sister Jacqueline Sperling and sister-in-law Charolette Ludwig presented the gift to ONU President Daniel A. DiBiasio in June 2016 after the estate was finalized.
Haiven C. Hale, 5, died on Saturday, July 30, 2016, at 2:21 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima.
Haiven was born on Jan. 23, 2011, in Lima, Ohio, to Tyler J. and Elizabeth L. “Lizzi” (Newland) Hale who survive in Ada.
Haiven played on the Red Ada t-ball team. His sister was his best friend. He loved monster trucks, dinosaurs and race cars. Haiven enjoyed helping his dad and grandpa on the farm.
A 5-year-old Ada child drowned in a pond on Sunday, July 31, according to Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish.
Crish reported that Haiven Hale, 5, of Ada, was swimming with other children in a pond at 6803 N. Dixie Highway in Allen County, when he was found unresponsive in the water.
Emergency personnel were called to the scene but were unable to save him, Crish said.
The sheriff’s report indicated that there were several adults around the pond watching the children and trying to keep track of them in the water, but with children going in and out, lost track for a minute or two, long enough for Haiven to drown.
Robert L. Burdette Weyer, 25, of Ada, was killed when he was struck by a car early Sunday morning, July 31.
According to Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish, the incident occurred at 3 a.m. in the 9900 block of Reservoir Road between Pevee and Shrider roads when a westbound vehicle struck Weyer.
Weyer was pronounced dead at the scene, and his body was sent to the Lucas County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy.
Hunter Allen, 19, of Ada, driver of the vehicle, was not cited. The driver was on his way to Lima, Crish said.
Ada Police Department’s canine unit assisted the Hardin County Crime Task Force in a narcotics investigation on July 29, according to Keith Everhart, Hardin County Sheriff.
At approximately 10:30 p.m., on July 29, the department initiated a traffic stop on County Road 144 near County Road 195 east of Kenton.
As a result, 125 individual hits of heroin were confiscated along with other drug paraphernalia.
Two adult females were arrested on numerous charges including possession, trafficking and tampering with evidence.
