Don’t invite Libbie Milks to your New Year’s Eve party. She’ll be in Pasadena, California.
The Ada High School senior was recently selected to perform with the Bands of America Honor Band in the 2017 Rose Parade.
She will spend a week in southern California, where she will have rehearsals, performances at the Tournament of Roses Bandfest and Disneyland, special activities and a featured appearance in the world-famous parade.
Here’s how it came about:
Unknown to Libbie, Jonathan Lischak, Ada HS music teacher, submitted a tape of her playing the flute as part of the application process to be selected for the 300-piece band.
A Good Frame of Mind: The work of Laura Barnhardt Corle of Findlay, ONU 1977 grad,is now featured on American Frame’s website.
The Maumee, Ohio, based company is a premier supplier of custom picture frames, mat boards, and many other supplies.
Corle's detailed work was also featured during Ohio Northern’s homecoming this past fall.
“Watercolors: A Grass Roots Project” was on display at the Stambaugh Studio Theatre Gallery. The show highlighted her recent MFA thesis work featuring beautifully detailed botanical watercolors.
The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce is in the ribbon-cutting business this month.
According to Deb Curlis, chamber president, the chamber will cut a ribbon and present a broom to the newest Ada business, Call of Beauty at 9:15 a.m., following its June 15 meeting.
Then, at noon, Wednesday, June 15, the chamber will cut a ribbon at the St. Rita health center on State Route 81.
Sarah Ellen Hicks, 83, after two weeks being injured, she graduated into the heavenlies on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at 12:54 p.m. with family and friends at her side.
She was born on March 26, 1933 in Floyd County, Kentucky near Wayland, Kentuky (Millcreek) to Clayton and Ella (Parker) Keen, who preceded her in death. On June 25, 1949, in Mousie, Kentucky, she married Rev. Lewis Hicks and they were married for 66 years. He survives in McGuffey.
