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Ada students may participate in an American Red Cross blood drive on Thursday, March 20. The drive takes place in the 1986 gym from 3 to 8 p.m. The drive is sponsored by the Ada Elementary Aspirations Team.

Persons interested in being a donor may register by calling the elementary office. Students who get donors will receive a Red Cross backpack.

To help support the blood drive, Ada K-6 students are writing letters to the donors thanking them for the donation and saying how donating blood has specifically helped them or their loved one.  

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Ohio Northern University will host its ninth annual “Unite for Awareness Week,” a student-driven initiative to bring attention to issues of discrimination, from Sunday, March 23, to Friday, March 28.

All Unite for Awareness Week events are free.

On Sunday, March 23, Open Doors will have a booth set up in the ONU Field House to increase awareness of transphobia.

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Here are members of the Ada High School Future Farmers of America from the 1964 Ada yearbook.

Front from left, Jere Anspach, Gary DeVier, Carl Hackworth, John Everhart, Bruce Hays, Neil Williams and Dave Keller.

Second row from left, Steve Mankey, Tom Brown, Gary Nelson, Al Keller, Dale Miller, Paul Basinger, Sam Hall and Rex Keith.

Third row from left, Paul Baughman, Gary Ludwig, John Hall, Lowell Green, David Ring, Dan Keller, Jim Ludwig and Jim Wright.

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Here's this week's special at Northern on Main for March 17-21

• Stacked Corned Beef Sandwich, Potato Salad or Chips and a Fountain Drink, $5.99
• Tortilla Soup with Half a Chipotle Chicken Sandwich and Fountain Drink, $5.99

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The March meeting of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce is at 8 a.m., Wednesday, March 19, at Community Health Professionals, according to Deb Curlis, chamber presdient.

The agenda includes planning for the spring festival and a ribbon cutting for a new business.

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Beverly R. Justice, 67, died on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 4:35 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima. She was born on December 9, 1946 in Lima, Ohio to Herbert "Hebert" and Rubena "Ruby" (Patton) Prater and they preceded her in death. On October 16, 1965 she married Roy Justice and he survives in Alger.

Beverly was a homemaker. She was a member of the McGuffey Church of Christ. She was a member of the Ada VFW Post #9381 Women's Auxiliary, where she was presently serving as secretary, and was a member of the Moose Women's Auxiliary #863 of Kenton.

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