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Seven players from the Ohio Northern softball team have been awarded All-Ohio Athletic Conference accolades for their performance during the 2019 campaign, the league office announced Monday.

Seniors Hailee Loughman (Brookville) and Kaitlin Surdej (Lancaster, N.Y./Central), junior Gabby Stewart (Union, Ky./St. Henry), and freshman Rachel Hish (Gainesville, Va./Patriot) each received All-OAC First-Team honors to lead the selections.

Can you hear it? It's the fifth grade band performing in its concert on Monday. There's more music to hear by checking out the remaining photos in this series. You'll find the sixth grade band, junior high band, sixth grade choir and junior high choir. (Photos from Ada Bulldogs Facebook)

The 16th annual Hardin County Master Gardener plant sale begins at 9 a.m. on
Saturday, May 11, rain or shine at the Friendship Gardens of the Hardin County, which is a new location.

The Friendship Gardens of Hardin County is located behind the HARCO Workshop Building, 960 W. Kohler Street in Kenton. Parking is available at the garden.

Sponsored by the Hardin County OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers, there will be several Hardin County garden clubs and vendors at this annual event.

The public will find a wide choice of their favorite flowers, bedding plants, roses, herbs, trees and various other potted plants.

Here's the commencement details

Ohio Northern University will hold commencement exercises for the Raabe College of Pharmacy as well as undergraduate colleges and the Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) program on Sunday, May 12, in the ONU King-Horn Sports Center. The Pettit College of Law commencement is Sunday, May 19.

Approximately 637 students are earning their degrees this academic year, including 139 from the College of Pharmacy, 62 from the College of Law and 436 from the other three colleges.

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

The College of Pharmacy commencement exercises will be held at 9 a.m. on May 12.The student speaker is Molly Wheeler of Sylvania.

So they held an ice cream social and donated $500 to the police department

Ada 4-H club, Liberty Belles and Boys, wanted to make Ada a safe community – so they did something about it.

Last summer the club held an ice cream social fundraiser. It generated $500 and the proceeds were recently donated to the Ada police department for surveillance equipment for the  department’s S.A.F.E.R. program.

Project S.A.F.E.R. (Seeking Aid From Every Resident) is Ada's own community policing initiative started in January of 2002. It is a winner of the 2003 Ohio Crime Prevention's Community Policing Strategy Award, aimed at nurturing the relationship with the community.

A new group has formed in Ada - it's for anyone 50 and older. The group is called "O. W. L. S. (Older, Wiser, Living Saints)."

O.W.L.S. meets at Wesley Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church, Ada, for lunch and fellowship at noon every third Wednesday of each month. This month's meeting is on May 15.

"Food is provided. We will also have some sort of program each month and hopefully some fun," according to Judy Lusk.

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