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The Kern Family Foundation has awarded a grant of $1.21 million to the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University to encourage further work in instilling the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering undergraduates from 2015 through 2018.

The grant is to be the largest programmatic grant Ohio Northern University has received from a private foundation.

Ohio Northern is part of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), a group of approximately 20 private engineering colleges working to produce graduates with the entrepreneurial mindset, learning to nurture curiosity, make connections and create value. ONU has been part of KEEN since 2005.

Having a difficult time deciding what to wear tomorrow?

Here's a cue from Ada High School. It's Student Council Spirit Week. Each day has a different dress theme. Here's this week's dress schedule. 

Merry Monday---Wear your Santa hat to school, get a cookie at lunch! If you don’t have a Santa hat, cookies will be available for purchase at lunch. All proceeds will benefit ReStore.

Tinsel Tuesday—Dress in your shiniest clothes and stop in the library to vote for your favorite Christmas movie…it will be played in the library on Friday.

The only place in Ada where you'll find snow on the ground and water frozen hard enough to skate is the Ada Public Library. This charming winter scene is on display at the circulation desk.

Q: What has four walls, a roof and lots of yummy stuff to eat?

A: It should be obvious, but's here's a hint: Lots of these structures were built recently at the Ada Public Library. They are called gingerbread houses.

They come in a wide range of styles and accomodations. The library allowed us to link up to the Facebook photo gallery. 

For an enjoyable time, click here and check out this year's brand of Ada gingerbread houses. (There's 32 photos.)

 

Glenn E. Wince, 79, died Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, at 7:04 a.m. at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima, Ohio.

He was born Nov. 1, 1935, in Weston, Ill., to Homer and Rose (Lorch) Wince. They preceded him in death. On June 20, 1981 he married Maxine Bayes Wright and she survives in rural LaFayette, Ohio.

He was a farmer and had worked at the Ada Farmers Exchange. He was also a member of the National Guard. He was sexton of Jackson Township for several years and was a 1953 graduate of LaFayette Jackson High School. 

Six Ada Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) trustee terms expire on Dec. 31, according to Angela Polachek, administrative assistant for the Village of Ada.

The December CIC meeting is at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 17, in McIntosh Center at Ohio Northern Univeristy. Trustees will be voted upon at the meeting.

Those trustees are Beth Fenton, Jimmy Wilson, Dick Lawrence, Norm Rex, Don Traxler and Polachek.  The CIC meets monthly.

Deb Curlis and Dave Retterer make up the nominating committee.

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