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Les Thede creates wooden sculpture as a memorial to his wife

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“Sunburst over Northern,” a wooden sculpture, was dedicated on March 22 in the atrium of the ONU Dicke College of Business Administration.

Dr. Les Thede created the wooden sculpture as a memorial to his wife, Diane. She retired as an administrative assistant at ONU after working there 26 years. She was a member of the ONU Women’s Book Club and Bridge Club. She died May 1, 2018.

Dr. Thede is a retired ONU electrical engineering professor. In 2000 he began creating furniture. His company is EverLasting Furniture (ELF).

Here's the third quarter list for 2018-19

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Here is the Ada Exempted Village Schools 3rd quarter Honor Roll for the 2018-19 school year.

Grade 4

All A:  Brooklyn Andreasen, Callee Burgess, Kiera Cash, Timothy Chrissobolis, Kolton Dysert, Alivia Gibson, Chase Jarrett, Reese Jordan, Kaytlin Lambert, Wesley Mowery, Dailah Preston, Jacob Rush, Tyler Stauffer, Allison Stockert, Jacob Szippl and Blake Zoladz

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Give me an “A”!

It is cheerleading tryout time for next year's Ada Junior High and High School football and basketball seasons.

Open to current 6th graders to high school juniors, a practice clinic is from 3 to 6 p.m., Sunday, March 31. Tryouts follows at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 7, according to Bridgette Jones and Tracy Breidenbach, high school coaches.

The tryouts include scoring in a group cheer, jumps and tumbling, group chant, dance and a teacher evaluation.

A written test on knowledge of basketball and football will be taken by all who tryout. Ada cheerleaders will participate in the UCA Cheerleading Camp held at Ohio Northern University July 26-29.

ONU program raises service dogs

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Earlier this week Dominick Sara and Carah Porter from Ohio Northern University updated Ada Kiwanis members best about the 4 Paws for Ability program involving ONU student training service dogs

Founded in 2014, Polar Paws is an Ohio Northern University student organization that raises service dogs through 4 Paws for Ability in Xenia, Ohio.

The active campus of Ohio Northern offers a wide variety of events and social situations for dogs to experience and is the key to a service dog in training's development and socialization.

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Ada McDonald’s Restaurant is the Ada school Bulldog Business of the month for March. Dan Lee, Ada High School principal, made the presentation to Tina Perrine, McDonald’s manager, earlier this week.

Here are this year's contestants and winners

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The 113th annual Ada High School Interclass Competition – held Friday evening – is in the books, and here are the winners:

Winning class: (Juniors) Nora Dellifield, Hunter Wells, Samantha Crawford, Leah Conley.

Individual winning categories: Audrey Hazelton (poetry), Brooklyn Rudasill (essay), Allison Dotson (dramatic reading), Samantha Crawford (short story).

And, this year’s contestants: Ryan Kilgallon, Jacob Thaxton, Nora Dellifield, Audrey Hazelton, Brooklyn Rudasill, Allison Dotson, Hunter Wells, Leah Conley, Samantha Crawford, Alyssa Wince, Cade Mullins and Kesewa Akyeampong.

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