What's a Bull Bear?
The Konnor Baker story, which was highly popular on Ada Icon, taught us a new term: Bull Bear. Seems that Ada High School athletes who also become standout players at the local university are called Bull Bears, the partial name of each schools' mascots...AHS Bulldogs/ONU Polar Bears, clever idea.
Thanks to Conelia Sauvie Dixon, an alumna of both schools, a Bulldog and Polar Bear, hence a Bull Bear, for adding a new term to my lexicon.
Ada Roads
Ada has 21 miles of roads of roads, including village and state routes. That's like driving from here to Dunkirk and back.
On Feb. 20 and March 2 the Hardin County Crime Task Force conducted an underage sales of alcohol investigation at 20 county establishments that sell alcohol for consumption off premise, according to Hardin County Sheriff's Office.
According to the Sheriff's Office:
"This is done on a periodic basis throughout the county to ensure that minors are not being sold alcohol in our communities.
Youngsters gather in the front of the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church on Sunday to hear the childrens' sermon. Becky Bodey taught the lesson. This was the first Sunday worship service in the new church, three years after it burned to the ground.
The church has had a series of special occasions leading up to today. There was an Ash Wednesday service on Feb. 18, a prayer vigil from dawn to dusk on Feb. 19-21, and the last service at the ONU Chapel on Feb. 22.
The winter snow and shadows create an artistic image on an Irish fence made of split rail at Cedar Grove located on five acres of land three miles north of Ada. Click here for an additional photo. (Monty Siekerman photo)
Farmers aren't in the field today. Instead they are on the ONU campus learning about new ag products and technologies.
Over 500 farmers, consultants, industry reps and government officials are in Ada March 3 and 4 participating in a Conservation Tillage & Technology Conference (CTC), one of the largest agricultural programs in northwestern Ohio.
Over 60 speakers are present and about 40 vendors have product displays and representatives available.
The winter snow and shadows create an artistic image on an Irish fence made of split rail at Cedar Grove located on five acres of land three miles north of Ada.
Below: A carved stone greets visitors to Cedar Cove. The sign is made of Brown County stone quarried near Nashville, Ind.
