FINDLAY — The Ohio Northern men's golf team wrapped up its 2018-19 fall schedule with a fifth place finish at the Defiance Fall Invitational on Friday at Red Hawk Run Golf Course.
The Polar Bears ended 10-24 overall finishing fifth of five teams.
Senior Joshua Turich and freshman Nolan Kimberly led ONU with 80s, tying for 14th place out of 41 golfers.
Officers of the Ada Police Department will be on hand for Coffee with a Cop on Tuesday. They will be at McDonald’s from 8-10 a.m. on Oct. 16 to give community members an opportunity to ask questions and voice concerns as they work to make Ada a S.A.F.E.R. place to live. And, the coffee is free.
Goodbye blue totes, hello increase in the trash bill. Within the next few weeks, the blue trash and recycle totes of Republic will be replaced by totes from Wright Refuse in Lima since Wright was the lowest bidder on trash pickup for the next three years. The water/sewer/trash bill will increase with the December billing. The trash portion of the bill has been $14 a month. It will now be $17.25.
By Monty Siekerman
Ada’s City Building, constructed as a WPA project during the Great Depression, probably will receive a major renovation in 2019. Village officials have been considering what to include in a refurbishing with adding an elevator, safety, and efficiency the top priorities.
Village Council, and it’s committees, now meet on the top floor but this is inconvenient for the disabled public, press, and council members to attend.
Technicon Design Group, an architectural, engineering, and design group in Ottawa, is drawing up plans with the hope that the project can be bid and work completed in 2019.
By Monty Siekerman
Phase I of the Willeke Street project is nearly complete with only blacktopping left to be done, which is scheduled for next week. The $1.1 million project included new storm sewers, new sanitary sewers, new catch basins, water mains, sidewalks and gutters, and rebuilt road.
Phase II, slated for bid and completion next year, will include the same improvements. The cost will be $1.4 million. The Village received a $500,000 state grant for phase I and a similar amount for phase II. Part of the cost will be assessed the property owners.
Avanell J. Brace, 94, passed away Tuesday Oct. 9, 2018 in Lima Memorial Health System.
She was born on January 29, 1924 in Ada. She was the oldest child of the late Vynal and Mabel (Rhodes) Kindle of Ada. On June 22, 1950 Avanell married Franklin R. Brace who died September 1, 1999.
