Ada's latest news

 Last Week at Ohio Northern:

    Men's Basketball - Lost 61-80 at Wilmington; Lost 79-86 H v Mount Union
    Women's Basketball - Won 73-42 H v Wilmington; Won 58-42 at Mount Union
    Wrestling - Won 22-18 at John Carroll
    Men's Swimming & Diving - Idle
    Women's Swimming & Diving - Idle
    Men's Indoor Track & Field - 1st of 11 H w/Joe Banks Invitational
    Women's Indoor Track & Field - 1st of 12 H w/Joe Banks Invitational
 This Week's Schedule:

Viva Maria’s Italian Restaurant, 124 E. Buckeye Ave., Ada, is offering a specialty buffet for Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Feb. 14.

The $13.95 buffet includes:
• Tricolor tortellini in Alfredo sauce
• Spaghetti with meat sauce
• Salad with Dominic’s Italian-Ranch dressing
• Bruschetta
• Fried dough with cannoli cream and chocolate drizzle
• Cream puffs

Also on the menu are eight additional dishes. The evening special is pasta carbonara.

Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St., Bluffton, announces a day full of romance on Saturday, Feb. 14.  A Champagne Brunch is available 10-3 and a Candlelight Dinner for Two will be offered 5-8.

Champagne Brunch ($25 per person)
●Bellini or Mimosa (alcoholic or non)
●Goat Cheese Crostini with Strawberry Compote
●Baked Egg with tomatoes, herbs & cream
●Brie, Bacon & Walnut Flatbread with drizzled honey
●Crème Brulee French Toast

What do you do with 1,000 roses? You sell them. Carol Slane Florist in Ada is preparing for The Big Day on Saturday, Shannon Brown (left), owner and Tanya Sutton (center) and Sandy Turner hold some of the many flowers they will distribute as arrangements or wrapped as cut flowers for customers. Shannon's mother, Carol Slane, began the business in 1986. Shannon became owner in 1998. Both Tanya and Sandy have been with the flower shop since 1998. In Ada, Valentine's is the biggest flower holiday of the year due to many ONU students residing here in February.

Taxpayers in Hardin and surrounding counties can find free income tax assistance from Ohio Northern University business and law students through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA).

The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally $53,000 and below) individuals across the country who cannot prepare tax returns on their own. As part of this program, ONU students receive training and become IRS-certified to help prepare basic and intermediate tax returns and identify special credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Child Tax Credit and Credit for the Elderly.

Here's a first for the Ada HS wrestling program.

Ada High School wrestler Jarod Woodland was named co-wrestler of the year at Saturday's Northwest Conference wrestling meet held at Bluffton. Woodland, a senior, who wrestles at 195 shared the honor with Adam Deatrick, a Paulding senior, who wrestles at 170. Woodland is the first-ever Bulldog to receive the NWC wrestler title.

VIDEO AT BOTTOM OF STORY.

Mike Abbey of Allen East was voted by his peers as NWC Coach of The Year.

Pages