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By James Davidson, MD
Blanchard Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
For many people, spring is the beginning of baseball and softball season.

Whether you or your loved one play in an organized sport or an informal club, it is important to be mindful of the effects these sports can have on the body. Specifically, sore arms are a common health-related issue baseball and softball players face, especially pitchers.

Throughout the season, players’ throwing arms are placed under a large amount of stress, which causes soreness to occur.

October 1963 - Human Hair Found In 4-Foot Oak at John Atha Sawmill

By Leland Crouse
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John Atha’s loggers cut down an old white oak four feet in diameter on the James Motter farm northwest of Ada last Friday, and came up with a mystery- human hair stuffed into a hole that had been bored about seven inches into the tree.

Terry Maris is the speaker

The Ada community will observe Memorial Day on Monday, May 27, with a 1 p.m. ceremony at Woodlawn Cemetery, according to Tom Lehman of the Ada American Legion Foss-Agin-Meyer Post 185, this year’s sponsor.

Dr. Terry Maris, professor of management and the former dean of the College of Business Administration at Ohio Northern University, is this year’s speaker.

Dr. Maris served as a U. S. Army officer and subsequently as a management consultant. He has traveled to nearly 70 countries as a speaker, lecturer, researcher and advisor.

136th annual Ada HS graduating ceremonies on Sunday

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

That quote by popular author J.K. Rowling is the motto of the 2019 Ada High School graduating class.

Ada High School’s 136th annual commencement is Sunday.

The Ada HS class of 2019 will receive diplomas in a program at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 26, in the high school gymnasium.

Noah Mattson, class president, will offer a moment of reflection, to start the program.

Forming the appropriate number "19," Ada High School members of the class of 2019 sit for a pre-commencement photo. The 136th annual Ada High School commencement is 2 p.m., Sunday, in the Ada High School gymnasium.

Girls between 4th and 8th grade are invited to OSU Extension: Hardin’s Girl’s Group summer activities.

Girl’s Group brings together public school and homeschooled girls to work on strengthening friendships and developing overall confidence, positive self-image and self-esteem, and leadership skills through a variety of hands-on education and activities. 

The group meets on selected Fridays at the Spark Lab in the Hardin County Extension Office unless noted in the schedule. The first meeting is Friday, May 31, in Lima for a fun night from 4-10 p.m.

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