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Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) has its sights set on 2017. CIC reorganized for the year on Jan. 18.
Officers and board members elected for 2017 are:
Jamie Hall, president
Brandt Miller, vice president
Eileen Peterman, secretary
Angela Polachek, treasurer
Miller and Peterman filled two board vacancies, with terms from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2018. Peterman’s term had expired and Dick Lawrence announced in December his retirement from the board.
In keeping with the spirit of a capital campaign at his alma mater, Craig O. Pierson and his wife, Kay, of Bowling Green, Ohio, have made an impact on future students at Ohio Northern University and his profession through a recent lead gift to the university’s “Campaign for Engineering: Building Impact at ONU,” an endeavor to fund a new building for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering.
Madie Skiver, an Ada High School senior, had two pieces of art accepted in the Scholastic Art Show in Ft. Wayne, Ind. Her artwork will be displayed at the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art from Feb.12-April 9.
One of her pieces of art, titled "Nevermore," shows a black raven. Madie came up with the idea from her favorite poem, Edgar Allen Poe's "Nevermore." The print received an honorable mention award.
To make the lineo print, she took a cutting tool to a piece of rubber, then applied ink to the rubber, and transferred the image to paper.
Judith Greavu won first place in the "plants" category in the ArtSpace/Lima annual photography club's juried exhibit.
Here photo is titled "Dried Kelp." The exhibit is at ArtSpace now through Feb. 11.
Greavu taught at Bluffton University and retired from Ohio Northern University where she was associate professor in the department of art & design from 1985–2005.
Austin D. Waller, 23, died on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 at his father's residence in Dayton, Ohio.
He was born on January 1, 1994 in Hancock County, Ohio to Carl "Randy" Waller and Susan (Carity) Waller. His father Randy survives in Dayton and his mother and step father Mark and Susan Swearingen survive in Dola.
Austin was a graduate of Hardin Northern High School class of 2012.
Austin is also survived by two sisters: Amber (Jeremy) Crossman of Arlington and Amanda Kay Waller of Dola; two nephews: Sawyer Crossman and Lincoln Crossman; maternal grandmother, Sheila Carity of Lima; paternal grandparents: Susan and Dick Stall of Findlay; numerous aunts and uncles.
