Three teams from Ada Elementary traveled to the Regional Destination Imagination Tournament on Saturday, March 9 at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.
The Ada Bulldogs Rising Stars team (2nd graders: Rosemary Gargac, Eillie Lee, Makenna Szippl, Hazel Timpe, Abram Toomey, and Max Wile, Team Managers: Jenny Gargac and Amelia Anderson-Wile) participated at a non-competitive level designing and performing a presentation called "Making a Splash" and were praised for their creativity and use of recycled materials in their presentation.
On March 1, Dr. Chirstopher D. Hoch, director of The Ohio State University Marching Band, visited the Ada Schools to work with its band programs. Dr. Hoch has five degrees, all from OSU, including his doctorate in Music Education.The connection comes from Ada's band director, Carter Bivens, who earned his bachelors in Music Education at Ohio State. Asa an undergraduate, Bivens spent five years in the marching band under the direction of Dr. Hoch.
Top) Ada Automotive, Business of the Year, 2023; L-R below) David Lusk, Distinguished Citizen of 2023, Jill Simmons, volunteer of the year.
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By Paula Pyzik Scott
On Thursday, February 29, the Ada community gathered for a celebration of individuals and organizations that made outstanding contributions during 2023. Based on nominations from individuals, recipients were selected for outstanding volunteer, business of the year and citizen of the year.
On Sunday February 25, 2024, the Ada Barnyard Farmers, had a beginning of the year party at a Bowling Alley at 4 p.m.
Our group had fun bowling, line dancing and playing games. During this meeting we selected our officers of our group. They are listed below. We discussed about important papers that we had to fill in, and about blood work for chickens.
We also discussed about our Poultry Banquet and it will be March 30. Our Goat Banquet will be April 6. Our next meeting will be March 24 at 3:00 p.m.
