After 25 years of service, Michael Schoenhofer, executive director of the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin Counties will retire on Jan. 31.
Schoenhofer has served as president of the Lima Rotary Club and president of the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities. He has served on the Governor’s Advisory Board at the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, the Social Work Advisory Board at Bluffton University, the Allen County Health Department Board, and West Central Learning Academy’s Board.
The Ada Historical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room at the Ada Public Library, 320 N. Main St., Ada.
The Ohio Northern wrestling team will travel West to the Pete Willson Wheaton Invitational, which has been held annually since 1938.
Approximately 38 NCAA Division III schools are expected to compete in the double-elimination individual tournament
And, 11 of the 38 teams are ranked in the latest NWCA Top 25 poll.
On Friday, Prelims, Quarterfinals and wrestlebacks will be contested on six matches beginning at 11 a.m. (CST).
Saturday's competition will consist of Semifinals, wrestlebacks and the seventh place matches beginning at 10 am, with championship, third place and fifth place matches starting at 12:45 p.m.
Lady Panthers cage Bulldog girls By Cort Reynolds
PAULDING - Host Paulding ran out to a big early lead and went on to beat Ada 66-39 in Northwest Conference girls basketball play Thursday night.
The purple and gold girls fell to 1-14 and 0-5 in the NWC with the loss, while the Lady Panthers improved to 7-9 and 2-4 in league play after the win.
Paulding led 34-9 at intermission, but Ada played the Panthers to a 32-30 second half.
"The first half was disappointing," said first-year Bulldog head coach Morgan Bass. "Then in the second half we scored 30. But they killed us on the boards.
Carrie Woodruff, Ada High School grad and Ada resident, is the 2019 Foodservice Achievement Management Excellence (FAME) Silver Special Achievement Award recipient.
She is food service director of Lima City Schools. She will receive the award at the FAME award ceremony in Austin, Texas, during the School Nutrition Association’s School Nutrition Industry Conference this weekend.
The award goes to a director who demonstrates exceptional ability to recognize and solve problems unique to small districts.
Each day more than 500 million plastic straws are used and discarded in the U.S. (2017 statistic). A movement across the nation is underway to eliminate the problem. Starbucks at ONU ais among restaurants switching to paper, as the sign in McIntosh Center states.
