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Wednesday morning - rise and shine. Some things never change. One of those is the first day of school. Here's seven photos showing everything from "what's your schedule?" "let's take a photo,"  to "have a great day."

It's bold, modern and easy to recognize

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The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce unveiled a new logo at its Wednesday morning breakfast meeting at the Ada Public Library.

The new logo replaces a logo with several decades of use, according to Deb Curlis, chamber director.

“Ada’s chamber board wanted a logo that is bold and modern, yet simple and easy to recognize,” she added.

 The result is a logo with the word Ada in bold face capital letters.

Adding the word, “Ohio”  identifies Ada from nearly 20 Ada villages and cities around the United States. The most familiar being Ada, Oklahoma, and Ada, Michigan. Ada, Ohio, often is confused with Ada, Oklahoma, especially on the internet.

Sophomore setter Kirsten Poling dished out nine assists

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By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The Ada volleyball team lost its home opener to visiting traditional power St. Henry in straight sets on a steamy Tuesday night.

The 25-7, 25-16, 25-11 defeat dropped the Lady Bulldog record to 1-1.

The bigger Redskins possessed multiple high-level hitters, and Ada was unable to contend with their great size and balanced attack.

"We played well the second and thrd sets," said Bulldog second-year head coach Kyleigh Tabor. "Serve receive really killed us in the first set, then we cleaned it up. Everything starts with the pass."

Volunteered as a election poll worker

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Donna C.  Shadley, 89, died on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, at 6:19 a.m. at her residence in Ada, surrounded by her family.

She was born on Aug. 17, 1930, in Clearbrook, Minnesota, to the late Karl and Anna (Nelson) Buness. On March 6, 1948, Donna married Carl R. Shadley and he preceded her in death on Feb. 14, 2003. 

Donna was a homemaker and caregiver. She was a life time member of the Ada VFW Post #9381 Auxiliary, a member of the Bluffton Senior Citizens, and a member of the Eagles Auxiliary #370 of Lima. She volunteered as a poll worker.  Donna loved dancing and she was a former member of the Ohio Polka Boosters. 

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Erica Bryan has been named an assistant coach for the Ohio Northern softball program.

She has previous coaching stints at Centre (Ky.) in 2017 and with current ONU head coach Jackie Price at Hiram in 2015-16.

Bryan was a four-year starter as a shortstop at Ohio Wesleyan from 2011-14. She finished her career as a .306 hitter with 139 base hits, 85 runs scored and 53 stolen bases in 148 games.

She received her bachelor's degree in sport management from OWU in 2014.

Bryan then earned her master's degree from Hiram in international studies in 2016.

She is a native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, and currently lives in Lima.

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