ONU seniors Grant Cayot (Roanoke, Ind./Blackhawk Christian), J.J. Fortner(Maumee/Anthony Wayne), Chris Garbig (Wilder, Ky./Highlands) and Cory Lains (Zionsville, Ind.) have been named Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association All-Ohio for the 2017 season.
Cayot and Fortner were both dubbed First Team All-Ohio, while Garbig was named Second Team All-Ohio and Lains was named Third Team All-Ohio.
Cayot earned his first All-Ohio honor in his career after being named First Team All-OAC in 2017.
Four members of the ONU women's soccer team have been named Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association First Team All-Ohio.
Senior Hannah Reich (Howell, Mich.), and sophomores Meagan Grierson (Miamisburg), Haley Moses (Mason) and Rose Nienaber (Cincinnat/Oak Hills) all earned the honor for the Polar Bears.
Ohio Northern landed four members on the First Team for the second consecutive season.
Reich earned the OCSA honor for the third time in her career, and was named to the First Team for the first time.
The senior also became the first Ohio Northern women's soccer player in school history to be named a First Team All-American for her efforts this season.
Robert E. Gilbert, age 56, died on Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 7:32 p.m. at his residence.
He was born on February 14, 1961 in Lima, Ohio to Robert E. and Marjorie A. (Deubler) Gilbert. Both are deceased. Robert married Jane M. Ericson on March 15, 2013 and she survives in Kenton, Ohio. He was formerly married to Kathy (Friedrich) Rison of Van Wert, Ohio.
It's looking like a white Christmas with 2 to 3 inches of snow on this car in Ada on Saturday morning. More snow is predicted for Sunday, then a deep freeze arrives. Happy Holidays! (Monty Siekerman)
By Grant Pepper
On our way back to Dre White's office we cut through the Ada High School boys' locker room.
It was there, in that locker room, where White wrote the date “February 19, 2016” on the whiteboard last week leading up to the boys basketball team’s first conference game of the season -- a home bout with local rival Allen East last Friday.
He followed that date with a number, “665.” It had been 665 days since that date, nearly two years ago, which was the last time Ada had won a Northwest Conference basketball game.
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The monthly "Ohio Magazine" published an article in the current issue (January 2018) about the Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival. The 2/3 page story, with a photo of Wynn Hauenstein's 10-foot-long, lighted football, is found on page 6.
The article quotes Mayor Dave Retterer and a festival organizer Amy Hilan (she and her husband Mark own the Easter House B&B). The story is titled, "Super Bowl Fun Day" and subtitled "The city of Ada, home of the Wilson football factory that makes footballs for every NFL game including the biggest matchup of the season, celebrates its pigskin heritage."
