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."
Here's the holiday services schedule for Liberty Baptist Church:
Sunday, Dec. 24: Sunday School at 9:30 and church at 10:30. There will be no evening service.
Sunday, Dec. 31: Sunday School at 9:30 and church at 10:30. There will be a carry-in after the morning service then "popcorn preaching" for an early evening service.
This is a Letter to the Editor to say "Thanks." Ada Icon readers write Letters to the Editor to say thanks or express a concern, but this note is from the editor himself because of an unexpected gift.
Sometimes, the unexpected is the best, no matter the dollar value.
Here's a stern warning tapped on a door in the Ada school. However, we don't take it too seriously. Monty Siekerman photographed the message on the last day of the 2017 school year.
