The two Klondike Derby teams from Ada Boy Scout Troop 124 finished high in the annual show of Scouting skills and endurance. The derby was held at Camp Lakota on Jan. 23.
The teams had to push wooden sleds through over six miles of snow, ice, water and mud and complete seven group tasks such as fire building, map reading, track and tree identification, buck sawing and knot typing.
The older team, led by Wyatt Rettig, finished in just over five hours. The younger team, lead by Patrol Leader Kamron Wilkerson, finished 20 minutes ahead of the seven-hour limit.
Philip Sugden’s installation, A Page from the Manual on Dismantling God, is currently on view in the Elzay Gallery of Art at Ohio Northern University. Sugden is an assistant professor of art at Bluffton University.
Some pieces within this exhibit are based on location drawings, which Sugden completed during 12 journeys in the Himalayas of India, Nepal and Tibet.
The text not only incorporates current, ancient, and sacred languages, but also offers passages from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Old and New Testaments, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Buddhist texts and unified field theory.
Terry Sheridan, Ada High School, sophomore, was third place winner in the Third Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Essay Contest.
The purpose of the essay contest is to challenge students to think about how Dr. King's philosophy can be used to resolve social justice issues in today's society. His essay follows:
By Terry Sheridan
Dr. Martin Luther King is a very well known name to those in the United States and many other countries “sweltering with the heat of injustice.”
Ada's 4th grade through 8th grade Geography Bee took place last week. Here are the winners: Ireland Marshall, first; Nathan Hurtig, second, and Conner Daughtery, third.
