The Ada girls soccer team lost its regular season finale to visiting local rival Allen East 3-0 Saturday morning in a Northwest Conference contest.
The Lady Bulldogs fell to 5-10-1 overall and finished 3-3 in the NWC after the loss. An early-season Ada win over Spencerville did not count in the league standings.
AE improved to 5-1 in the NWC with the victory, good for second place in the league behind only Bluffton. The Lady Mustangs stand 12-4 overall.
Julia Meyer netted two goals to pace the Mustangs. Jade Meyer scored once and assisted on one goal as well.
The Ada cross country teams competed at the annual Northwest Conference title meet Saturday in Columbus Grove.
Freshman standout Abbie James led the Ada girls to fourth place out of five full teams at the event. Meanwhile, the Bulldog boys came in seventh out of eight, nosing out Allen East.
Lincolnview won the boys team title with 35 points, followed by Crestview with 65. Ada tallied 195 to beat out AE, which totaled 207.
Host Columbus Grove swept to the girls team title with 22 points to easily out-pace second-place Crestview, which totaled 60. Ada scored 117 points to beat out last-place Paulding (116).
Story and photo by Amy Eddings
The Ada village council moved closer to approving stiffer penalties against owners of vicious or dangerous dogs, following the attack last August of an Ada couple and their two small dogs by a pit bull that had escaped its kennel.
The legislation would not ban or target pit bulls or any other breed, a focus that council members had previously considered.
“I changed my opinion a lot on that after I talked to my vet, and my sister, who has five dogs” councilor Bob Simmons said. “It’s true, any dog can bite."
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I am a proud momma. My youngest son (Jeremy Hoschak) is a competitive cheerleader for CAPITAL CITY Gymnastics & Cheer in Findlay and my oldest is #63 (Jakob Hoschak) on the Ada High School football team. So that is how I came up with CHEER 63.
Sorry, but I wasn't even born in 1963, but I do cheer for Ada and Capital City.
By Monty Siekerman
ONU students are offering free tutoring in reading to students in grades 1 to 6 at ReStore Community Center from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesday's through the first week of December when the college students go on break.
Here, Cameron Wykes and Julie Handel enjoy building some objects with "Brain Flakes" before starting to read.
Psychology professor Ann Johnson heads the program which is offered free due to a grant the university received. The student helpers come from several ONU colleges and departments.
Nine youngsters were on hand Monday for the tutoring. New students are welcome to attend.
Students at Ada High School are holding a canned food drive this week to benefit the Ada Food Pantry.
Students are asked to bring in canned goods and drop them off in the high school office in the morning or during their lunch period.
To connect to the current presidential election, students bringing in canned goods will be asked to "vote" for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Results of this election will be announced next week.
Community members are asked to bring canned goods to the varsity football game on Friday, Oct. 21, as well.
