It’s 2015. People everywhere are making resolutions…lose weight, read more, quit smoking, etc. To resolve is the act of finding an answer or solution to a problem.
Yet most of our resolutions are never achieved. According to Marti Hope Gonzales, Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, just six weeks after making a resolution, 80 percent of people either have broken them or cannot even recall what they resolved. And of course, we feel like losers when we don’t achieve these goals.
Why not dazzle your party (or yourself) by testing your knowledge of Ada? To do so, we present the Ada Icon 2014 New Year’s Eve Quiz.
Here’s how it works. Here are 15 questions about Ada worth 45 points. Answers are based events of 2014. The correct answers are below our quiz, so you may grade yourself, but it’s totally the honor system.
Some questions are easy, some take some thinking and others are downright stinkers.
Of course, the stinkers are worth more points than others due to the skill level required to answer them correctly.
In the sixth year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Latta was fifth district representative.
Jose from Lebanon, Ohio, with his young housekeeper, Maria, who was nine-month’s pregnant with someone else’s child, and who Jose had intended to marry, drove to Ada in Jose’s 1996 Mercury Cougar. This was because Jose was a great-great-great-grandson of one of the original immigrants in Liberty Township.
There I was minding my own business in the Ada Public Library, and who do you suppose walked in: Great-Grandmother Ada.
I hadn’t seen her in town since the night Zac Dysert was drafted by the Broncos. She doesn’t live here anymore. I think she moved to Ada, Oklahoma, but I’m not certain. Anyway, I know she’s retired. She looked really good, though. A little purple wave in her hair and a really nice tan.
As soon as she sat down I knew she’d start talking. She has lots of opinions on Ada. You know, the usual: What ever became of so-and-so, and who bought that property on North Main Street?”
Dec. 6 was a a day of mixed emotions for students in the Ohio Northern University College of Engineering, but a good day for 4 Paws For Ability.
This fall ONU students in the College of Engineering became involved in training Viking, a now nine-month-old golden retriever.
MORE PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY.
Viking graduated from the program on Friday, and according to the department’s Facebook, “We had to say goodbye to Viking. One of his handlers, civil engineering student Matt Stroh, brought Viking to the Dean's Office for some final goodbyes.”
Viking is now on a journey to become a service dog for disabled child.
