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If you've not yet walked through the Ada depot park and allowed the Christmas lights to set your mood, you are missing something. Here's a look at the depot park's lights from the center of the park looking toward the railroad.

Santa, live reindeer, Anna and Elsa from Frozen, activities at the Depot, live Nativity and lots more

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Ada Area Chamber of Commerce is ready for the holidays. Its annual Merry on Main is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 2, in downtown Ada. Here's the activities planned:

At the depot
• Two of Santa's live reindeer on display
• Kid's crafts provided by Ada Public Library
• Meet and take photos with Anna and Elsa, characters from the move "Frozen"
• Ada Lions, Ada Kiwanis and Ada Rotary clubs will have activities for kids

Also downtown
• Visit Santa Claus, see a live Nativity and choir singing at First United Methodist Church
• Free hot chocolate at Beatitudes

Students must carry at least a 3.0 grade point average and earn a letter during grading period-season

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By Cort Reynolds
ADA - Several Ada student-athletes earned All-Northwest Conference scholar-athlete honors for fall sports in 2019.

Students must carry at least a 3.0 grade point average and earn a letter during that grading period/season to be an NWC scholar-athlete. 

Gold level is for those with a 3.5-4.0 GPA, while silver is for 3.0-3.49.

Cheerleading gold - Jessica Breidenbach, Coco McLaughlin, Barrette Jones, Cami Hazelton, Meghan Erickson.
Cheerleading silver - Madison Deatharage.

Tickets still available for Dec. 6-7-8 performances at Civic Center, Lima

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The Freed Center's scheduled performances of "Holiday Spectacular" are sold out.

However, tickets for the production on Dec. 6, Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 in the Lima Veterans' Memorial Civic and Convention Center are still available.

Those performances times and dates follow:
• Friday, Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Matinees
• Saturday, Dec. 7, 2 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m.

The fully staged musical revue ushers in the holiday season and includes dancing and singing while showcasing the performance talents of ONU students and area children.

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We're not certain if this is Dancer, Prancer, or Comet.

But, we do know that it's one of Santa Claus' reindeer and two of the deers will be in Ada during Merry on Main from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 2, at the historic railroad depot.

Merry on Main includes lots of family-friendly activities. Those activities follow:

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 A school record 68 Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in the six fall sports for 2019.

The ONU football, men's soccer, women's soccer and women's cross country teams had record-high totals and the men's cross country team tied its record number of Academic All-OAC honorees.

Football had 16 named Academic All-OAC, men's soccer 15, women's soccer 13, women's cross country nine, men's cross country eight and volleyball seven.

The award winners must be a sophomore or higher in class standing, maintain varsity status and have a cumulative grade-point-average of at least 3.50.

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