A large contingent of children from the Ada Presbyterian Church and their friends entertained the residents of Vancrest with song and Scripture reading on Wednesday. In the second photo Albert Suniga (left) and Pastor Patrick Allen perform on guitars. (Monty Siekerman photos)
By Sidney Gossard, Chapter Reporter
The annual Ada FFA banquet was held March 29, in the cafeteria at Ada High School.
During the meal, Emma Jameson presented our annual slide show. It gave parents, as well as community members, a chance to see what the FFA does throughout the year.
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The Honorary Ada Chapter degrees were awarded to Christina Henderson, Ty and Heather Etgen for their outstanding service to the group.
Members of the Parliamentary Procedure teams, Public Speaking, and Soil Judging contestants were recognized.
Wrong! Try this: pancake day, high school musical, Arbor Day celebration, school honors assemblies, high school and ONU graduations, lots of music recitals, Thursday dinner club, and even a blind date with a book.
It takes six pages of single-spaced type to tell the Ada April and May story of coming events.
It's all in the current issue of "Hometown Happenings," created for the Ada icon viewers by Darlene Bowers.
A second-straight near-record construction season is underway across Ohio. This year, the Ohio Department of Transportation will invest $2.3 billion into the state’s roads and bridges, just shy of the record-$2.4 billion investments made in 2014 and 2015.
This construction season will include 1,098 projects, 26 valued at more than $10 million. Workers will pave 6,945 miles of roadway – enough for a two-lane road from Seattle to Key West, and repair or replace 1,281 bridges.
The Blanchard Pleasant Buckeye 4-H Club met Monday evening at the HN school with 43 members, 10 advisors, and 5 guests.
Recreation for the evening was 4-H bingo led by Denna Clem.
The program for the evening was a parliamentary procedure demonstration. Nikki Wykes asked all members to give attention throughout the year to the Clover Award activities to accumulate as many points as possible.
There will be club awards at the close of the year. Enrollment sheets were turned in.
A saxophone recital will be held at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 1 in Presser Hall at Ohio Northern University. The concert is free and open to the public.
Saxophonist Andrew Rathbun and pianist Jeremy Siskind will collaborate to reimagine Debussy's Preludes. Siskind and Rathbun debuted this program by commission at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival in 2016 and have also featured the works on a tour of Colombia.
