The Icon stopped in Ready, Set, Grow Preschool on Wednesday during the mid-morning snack. Here's a snack view from above one of the students. You need to study the pretzel before eating it.
“Shrek: the Musical,” is coming to Ada April 12-14.
Performances are at 7 p.m., Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 14, in the Ada school auditorium.
Pre-sale tickets are on sale in the high school office and during the evening and day of each performance. Tickets are $5 and are all general admission.
Leads in the music include: Coco McLaughlin as Fiona, Reece Evans as Shrek, Theodore Hadley as Donkey, and Ethan Hull as Lord Farquaad.
Scott Henning is the musical director. Jonathan Lischak directs the pit orchestra and Oshra Gadkar directing choreography.
By Cort Reynolds
McCOMB - Host McComb scored five runs in the sixth inning to post a 5-4 comeback win over the Ada softball team Tuesday evening.
The purple and gold dropped to 2-2 this season with the tough loss.
Ada led 4-0 through five innings. But in the home sixth McComb strung a few hits together, including a home run, and also capitalized on back-to-back Bulldog errors to seize a 5-4 lead.
The Panthers then held Ada scoreless in the seventh inning to preserve the victory.
By Cort Reynolds
McCOMB - The host McComb baseball team erupted for six runs in a wild first inning and held on for a 9-6 win over Ada Tuesday evening.
Ada fell to 3-3 with the non-league defeat.
The Bulldogs raced to an early lead by scoring three runs in the top of the first inning. But the Panthers responded by tallying six times in the home half of the first.
The Panthers then tacked on single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to extend their lead to 9-3.
Ada rallied to plate three runs and halve the deficit in their last at bat in the top of the seventh, but the lead was too much to overcome.
By Tim Glon
ADA — The Ohio Northern softball team scored 20 runs and pounded out 27 hits in a 7-0, 13-6 sweep of Wilmington on Tuesday afternoon at the ONU Softball Field.
The Polar Bears (9-9 overall, 3-1 Ohio Athletic Conference) also got a 4-hit shutout in Game 1 and a 3-inning save in Game 2 from senior Kaitlin Surdej (Lancaster, N.Y./Central). Surdej finished the day with 10 innings of shutout ball with only six hits allowed in the circle.
The Hardin County Clovers take on the Hardin County Sheriff’s office in a friendly competition shoot from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 6, at the Hog Creek Game Club, rural Ada. The event promotes 4-H shooting sports clubs and firearm safety.
Activities include a rifle and shotgun competition, 4-H shooting, and firearms demonstration from the sheriff’s office.
