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Icon viewers:

The Alger Memorial Festival Committee would like to thank all of the participants in the Memorial Day Parade and the many residents who came to watch. You make our parade a success.

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Outdoor movies in Ada! That's right. This summer

Three family-oriented outdoor movies will be shown this summer on the Ohio Northern Univesity tundra sponsored by The Freed Center for the Performing Arts and Bluffton Hospital.

The movies and dates are:

Friday, June 5 - Frozen
Friday, July 3 - Toy Story
Friday, Aug. 7 - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Movies are shown at dusk. Popcorn and beverages are avialable for purchase. Families are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy the movies under the stars.

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“Happy retirement!” reads the poster in the school.

The message carries a lot of weight. More than you realize.

Seven staff members with over 117 years of combined experience will leave the school system at the end of the school year.

PHOTOS COMPLIMENTS OF THE ADA BULLDOGS FACEBOOK PAGE.

They are listed with the number of years in the Ada system or years of teaching experience, plus their present Ada position.

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Ada High School's annual senior honors banquet took place May 13.

A host of seniors were honored, as well as several teachers. Several scholarships were announced.

The following students were honored either by the teachers or the community:

Front from left: Allison Howard, Abby Petersen, Madison Stoner, Tessa Coulson, Haley Jenkins, Gabby Linnon, Gabi Rall, Caralee Stover, Haley Crouse, Quinn High and Tori Wyss.

Back from left: Noah Beach, Terra Hunter, Alexis Amburgey, Jarod Woodland, Steven Gray, Lindsay Walden, Jake Taylor, Cort Everhart, Levi Bass and Mitchell Wilcox.

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Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Amy Rose and Tim Laubis are into rescues...not the usual pet rescues but they have saved a caboose and a statue from the trash heap.

And, for their engagement, Tim gave Amy Rose a rock...literally, a 16-ton rock, but more about that later.

The caboose has been on their property since 2007; the statue of a Crusade knight on a horse has been there since 2009.

Both have had considerable notice by passersby the past few years since their property is located on busy State Route 81, just east of the school.

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Dandelions...
* Eat them. Certain varieties, usually the long-stemed ones, are used as salad greens, soups, wines, and teas. When cooking, blanch them or saute them to make them more tasty.

* The roasted root is used as a coffee substitute. It's caffeine-free.

* It's one of the ingredients of root beer.

* Provides nectar and pollen for bees and some butterflies.

* Adds nitrogen to the soil.

* Dandelion is an herb used for many conditions, such as loss of appetite, upset stomach, intestinal gas, gallstones, joint pain, muscle aches, eczema, and bruises, laxative, skintoner, blood tonic, and digestive tonic, virus, cancer.

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