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Second quarter list for the 2019-20 school year

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Ada schools released the second quarter honor roll for the 2019-20 school year. The list follows:

4TH GRADE
ALL A:  Avary Acheson, Jackson Bowden, Elijah Craig, Nathan Jochims, Myah Keckler, Daniel Klear, Aliyah Kober, Zaiden Lawrence, Bryce Purdy, Emily Shanks, Rhett Ulrey and Ashley Williams 

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The Ohio Northern wrestling team advanced finished sixth at the 16-team Lycoming (Pa.) Budd Whitehill National Duals at Lamande Gymnasium.

The Polar Bears (11-6 overall) finished with a 3-2 record.

Ohio Northern competed in the "5th-8th Place" bracket on Saturday, defeating Cortland State (N.Y.) 20-19 and falling to Springfield (Mass.) 19-16.

Against Cortland State Trailing 4-0 after the 125 bout, ONU won the next five matches to grab a 20-4 lead.

The Red Dragons (5-2) won the final four bouts, but even with a pin at heavyweight, could not overcome the Polar Bears' early lead.

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By Orrie Augsburger
Faith Investment Services
Bluffton, 419-358-4207

Why we read nursery rhymes to our children

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By Liz Gordon-Hancock
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can...
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty dumpty had a great fall...

I'm reading these Mother Goose rhymes to my two-year-old, as part of his bed-time stories.

Have you ever stopped to think about these nursery rhymes and what these stories or words mean?

So many of these rhymes just don't make sense: Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the what?

Others are a little sinister, like the one about Peter, the pumpkin eater, and whatever he did with his wife.

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Alger Public Library received a $10,200 grant from the Ohio Children's Foundation according to Stacey Hensley, librarian.

"The grant enables the library establish three of AWE Learning's Early Learning Workstations," she said.

The stations include:
• Early Literacy Station
• Bi-lingual Spanish learning 
• Coding 

The library is located at 100 W. Wagner St., Alger.

 

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Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) will hold its first meeting of 2020 on Wednesday at noon in the Ada depot, according to Eileen Peterman, secretary of the CIC.

The 2020 CIC meetings are Jan. 15, April 15, July 15, Oct. 21 and Dec. 16. Meetings are at noon in the Ada depot.

What is “CIC”?
Ada CIC is “a corporation for the sole purpose of advancing, encouraging, and promoting industrial, economic, commercial and civic development of our Ada Community and Area.”

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