JUNE 10 MEDIA RELEASE__The Ada Exempted Village School District is among thirty-one governments, businesses, schools, and nonprofits in northwest Ohio receiving a total of $1.2 million in Recycle Ohio Grants. Funding will provide litter prevention and cleanup programs, education and outreach, scrap tire collections, recycling market development, and expansion of recycling facilities and infrastructure.

The local award is for $4,197. Superintendent Julie Simmons reports that the schools will replace traditional drinking fountains with drinking fountains with water bottle filling stations. The grant covers three water bottle filling stations which will be installed in the boys and girls varsity locker rooms and the wrestling practice facility.