Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse [email protected]
May 1915 - Ohio Northern University entered the Ohio conference. Other schools were Denison, Ohio University, Otterbein, Western Reserve, Miami, Cincinnati, Oberlin, Kenyon, Case, Wooster, Wittenberg, Wesleyan and Antioch.
June 1915 the “Zetetic” club is the name of a new literary club organized among women in the southwest part of town.
This plate provides a lot of information with just six letters. It belongs to David Retterer, Ada, mayor. You'll find it on a bright red Ford F150 pickup.
How many other university towns in the U.S. could you pull this off?
Check out that beautiful new Buick parked on the left side of this 1953 Ada Main Street photo.
Looking north from the Pennsylvania Railroad track (double tracks at the time) there's morelots to see.
There's a Pure gas station, Harry Tousley Insurance (with a clock on Main Street), J.M. Mertz Hardware, a soda fountain, and yes, that's the steeple of the Methodist Church (not yet United Methodist).
Don't missing the charming lights along Main Street. What else do you see? Send your observations to: [email protected].
Harry Potter came to the Ada Public Library for a party on Friday afternoon. Here, Leah Conley is dressed as a student at the Academy, and Natalie Walton, youth services director, is dressed as Professor McGonagal. They play out a scene from one of the tomes of the wildly popular series. British author J. K. Rawlings fantasy novels appeal to adults as well as youth. In less than 20 years since the first book was published, more than 450 million copies have been sold. It's the best-selling book series in history with the books having been translated into 73 languages.
By Monty Siekerman
A $300 million wind farm is closer to being built with a power purchase agreement signed between EverPower Wind Holdings, Inc., of Pittsburgh and Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company.
This is the single largest development project in Hardin County history. Taxing units - including USV school and the Alger/McGuffey area may receive more tax income.
By Monty Siekerman
There are two replacement levies, one for 1.5 mills and one for 1 mill, on Tuesday's ballot for the Ada War Memorial Park.
Both levies replace those approved by voters in the 1970s. Since then, inflation has cut into what can be accomplished with the property tax income that was generated by the expiring levies.
"The budget has been very tight the last few years," commented Tony Wolke, long-time park board member. "We hope the voters approve both of the five-year levies."
