could you attend the ultimate Michael Jackson experience, Ben Vereen’s homage to Frank Sinatra, Broadway’s Next H!t Musical, plus ONU student productions of The Pirates of Penzance, an International Play Festival and a host of other acts?
The answer: The Freed Center for the Performing Arts on the Ohio Northern University campus. You could say that the Center brings the world's stage to Ada.
On Wednesday morning, Rosanna Scott, Marketing and Communications Specialist of The Center, shared with Ada Area Chamber of Commerce members some of the upcoming shows and talked about The Center’s impact on Ada.
A proposed cell tower, dog park planning, and the football drop schedule were discussed at Ada Village council meeting on Tuesday night in the city building.
Verizon is interested in constructing a cell tower on village property and may pay the Village about $10,000 a year to do so.
Council agreed to pursue the idea further. It will probably be discussed for a long time before contracts are signed. The location has not been decided, among other issues.
FROM BLUFFTON ICON - There's an interesting, long-standing link between Ada, Ohio Northern University and pharmacies in Bluffton.
Greg Conkling past owner of Greg's Pharmacy, Bluffton, purchased the pharmacy from John Skelly (1942 ONU pharmacy grad) in 1986 and owned it for 26 years.
Conkling was an ONU pharmacy grad.
Deb Retterer, a pharmacist at Greg's since 1989, who retired at the end of 2016, was also an ONU pharmacy grad.
Deb's replacement is Bluffton native, Andrea Williams, also an ONU pharmacy graduate.
Here's the story of the latest Ada-ONU pharmacy connection to Bluffton:
Visiting Spencerville started and finished very strongly to post a convincing 74-42 victory over the Ada boys basketball team in a Northwest Conference bout Friday night. Following a fifth consecutive defeat, the Bulldogs fell to 2-8 overall and 0-3 in the NWC. Meanwhile, the league-leading Bearcats improved to 8-2 and 3-0.
The No. 30-ranked Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team fell 160-123 at Mount Union at the Hammond Natatorium Saturday afternoon. The Polar Bears fall to 4-3 overall and are 1-2 in Ohio Athletic Conference action, while the Purple raiders improve to 7-0, 3-0.
Seniors Eric Chen (Mason) and Logan Pfeifer (Bucyrus/Colonel Crawford) each won twice to lead ONU. Chen won the 100 free in :48.56 and Pfeifer won the 50 free in :22.34. The pair then combined with juniors Thomas Golba (Kettering/Archbishop Alter) and Ian Simpson (Strongsville) to win the 400 free relay in 3:16.85.
Quentin and Dillon Angle are the first two kiddos to complete 1,000 Books before Kindergarten at the Ada Public Library, according to Amanda Bennett of the library.
Quentin began the program at age 4, and finished at age 5. Younger brother, Dillon, began the program at age 2, and finished at age 3! But, what exactly is 1,000 Books before Kindergarten? According to the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten website:
