Ada's latest news

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.

The video at https://www.onu.edu/news/holding-line shows how robots performed.

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.

The University Club II Scholarship Committee is accepting applications for its annual $1,000 college scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to a junior or senior college student who has graduated from a Hardin County (Ohio) high school.  

To receive an application,email scholarship chair Marilyn Dulin at [email protected]. The deadline for completed applications is February 1, 2022.  Questions may also be directed to 419-764-0344.

 

Tractors sold at a recent Ada area public auction made record prices. The Gossman farm retirement auction held on December 10 included a Ford and a New Holland Tractor which each sold for new record auction prices. The 2000 New Holland 8670 with 3131 hours sold for $71,000. 

Auction prices can be tracked on the Machinery Pete website.

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