The 44th annual Ada Music Feast, a show choir competition, will be held at Ada High School, 725 W. North Avenue on Saturday, November 13. The competition will feature outstanding show choirs from Ohio and Indiana including the school's own Varsity Singers. Tickets for the event are available online.
With the support of the Ada Music Boosters and volunteers, the event hosts and feeds performers and audience members.
Michael Kent Mathewson, age 64, of Marysville, died unexpectedly Thursday, November 4, 2021 at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Mike reported to work on Wednesday, November 3rd and returned home following a productive day, only to suffer from a massive brain aneurysm later in the evening. He died a few hours later as a result of his unknown health condition.
The November Ada Schools calendar is full with winter sports, meetings of the Academic Boosters, Music Boosters and School Board, as well as special events including the Elementary Book Fair and High School Drama performances.
This week:
Thursday, November 11 - No School K-12, Veterans' Breakfast
Saturday, November 13 - Music Feast
For complete details, visit the Ada Schools Calendar on the Ada Schools website ada.k12.oh.us.
Jenny Frankart admired spoon rings and had watched an artisan at the Tiffin Flea Market make rings. Instead of going shopping, she ordered a ring making vise from Ukraine and waited six month for it to come to rural Bluffton. Her father-in-law modified it to work with flatware. That was in 2013.
This year, Frankart has opened the Rustic Bendz jewelry shop-workshop at her home, after a sequence of larger and larger vehicles to sell jewelry at shows, and then a walk-in trailer shop. She makes rings as well as necklaces, key chains, money clips, wind chimes, and other accessories that have sparked her imagination.
Our November 7 photo stirred pleasant memories of passenger trains in Ada, and their sounds, for some of the Icon's Facebook followers. Passenger service ended in 1958.
Patrick “Pat” Michael Archer, 50, the most genuine soul you will ever know, was called Home on November 3, 2021.
Patrick was a miracle and immediately blessed his father and mother, Barry and Suzanne Archer of Harrod, on February 18, 1971.
He has said that he barely graduated from Allen East High School in 1989 where he was active in FFA and 4-H. He was on the football team wearing his number 69 but didn’t play much and was ok with that because that meant that someone else had their chance to shine. He took pride in showing sheep and helping on the farm. Having his own farm was a lifelong dream that was never truly realized.
