Ada's latest news

Ada's new fire truck dedication service took place Jan. 25. Click here for a story and photos of the truck.

Rev. Philip Compton, Ph.D.  fire chaplain, standing on the right side of the photo, provided a dedication of the new vehicle and his dedication follow:

Friends, we are gathered here today to dedicate and to seek God’s blessing on this new Spartan/Smeal pumper/engine and our firefighters that have been made ready for service to our community.

K-12 schools whose staff can be vaccinated next week have been notified. All other schools will be contacted shortly with information on when their K-12 staff will be permitted to receive a vaccine

Ada school staff is on the list for eligible school personnel in Ohio to begin receiving vaccines in Week 3 (beginning Feb. 15), according to an announcement from the governor’s office.

Click here for the list of schools in week 3.

According to the announcement, every public school district in the state - except for one - has agreed to resume in-person schooling by March 1, which was a requirement for staff to have early access to the vaccine.

The Icon Super Bowl Contest will be posted tonight. Watch for the announcement coming later today.

For youth, high school, coed and adult

Bluffton Family Recreation indoor soccer sign-up is underway now, according to Amy Byers, BFR sports coordinator.

• Indoor soccer for:
Adults
High school boys
High school girls
U 10
U 12
U 15 boys
U 15 girls
High school coed
U 8 coed

Also, sign-up is underway for arena flag football for third and fourth grades.

Check the graphic below for start dates for these programs, then click here to go to registration.

US health officials require negative COVID-19 test for air travelers entering US

This story provided by Ohio Northern University HealthWise Pharmacy.

Traveling to the United States just got a little trickier.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that all air passengers who hope to enter the US will have to get a negative COVID-19 test first. This new rule starts on Jan. 26.

This requirement comes as the nation is in another surge of cases and potentially more contagious variants of the virus are emerging around the world, the CDC noted.

Dr. Leah Eiden, Family Medicine
Bluffton Primary Care

“You’re getting the presidential treatment,” I told my professor friend who had COVID19.  He was one of the first in this area to receive bamlanivimab, another weapon in our fight against COVID.  

You may have heard that former president Trump received an investigational antibody treatment when he had COVID.  Ben Carson also did. Carson said, “I am convinced [the antibody treatment] saved my life.”  The medication these men received was an IV infusion of antibodies that act specifically against COVID19. 

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