By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Ada volleyball team was seeded seventh at the 14-team Div. IV Bluffton super sectional drawing held Sunday.
Ada (9-11) will visit sixth-seeded Arlington in the first round Tuesday, October 15 at 5:30 p.m.
The Lady Bulldogs beat Arlington 25-23, 25-19 at Hardin Northern on Saturday, August 31.
The Bulldog/Red Devil winner will then play the victor between fourth seed Minster (13-7) and 13th seed Waynesfield (3-15) Thursday, Oct. 17 at New Bremen.
By Cort Reynolds
SPENCERVILLE - The injury-plagued Ada football team fell behind 21-0 early and lost 58-14 at two-time defending league champion Spencerville in a Northwest Conference contest on a chilly Friday night.
The purple and gold fell to 2-4 overall and 1-2 in NWC play with the defeat. Spencerville improved to 4-2 and 3-0 in league action after their Homecoming win.
"Spencerville's offensive line won the battle up front," said Ada head coach Shawn Christopher. "We gave up field position and they took advantage of that.
Vendor spots are still available for this month's Ada Music Boosters crafts show.
The boosters will host the show in the 1986 gym from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday Oct.19.
General admission is $3. Vendor spots are $35 and a few spaces are still available. Contact Lori Poling at [email protected] or Arlene Allison at [email protected] for more vendor booth details.
Bureeda Hackworth, 95, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at Bridge Hospice Blanchard Valley Health System, Findlay, Ohio.
She was born in Paintsville, Kentucky, on June 21, 1924, to the late Lacy and Cloie (LeMaster) Brown. On Aug. 31, 1943, Bureeda married Earl Hackworth and he died on Oct. 19, 2012. Earl and Bureeda were married for 69 years.
Bureeda was a homemaker. She was a member of the Lonesome Valley United Baptist Church of Alger. She was a member of the Hardin County Home Extension Club and a member of the former Order of the Eastern Star Chapter #6 of Ada.
Haven James Lawrence, 41, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at 10:40 a.m. at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
He was born on Feb. 3, 1978 in Findlay, Ohio, to James “Wink” and Thearse “Dolly” (Salsbury) Lawrence. His father survives in Alger and his mother preceded him in death. On July 16, 1999, he married Jessica Howard and she survives in Alger.
Haven was a 1996 graduate of Upper Scioto Valley Schools and was a Machine Operator Trainer for Graphic Packaging for 5 years.
To put it frankly, Ethan Smith didn't think he could hit a golf ball that far. About a decade ago, a-much-younger Smith was hitting balls in his backyard like he had so many times before.
He flushed a six iron. The ball soared through the southern Ohio air before surprisingly, and unfortunately, striking his neighbor's window.
"I didn't think I could hit it that far," Smith said.
Smith walked over to his neighbor's house and apologized — fortunately the window didn't break. As funny as the situation sounds, a passion was born on that day.
