By Victoria Ross, Ada FFA Reporter
Ada High School’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) held its award banquet on March 28. Awards and degrees were presented for projects, leadership and scholarship.
Those awards follow:
Outstanding Freshman - Kirsten Poling
Outstanding Sophomore - Wyatt Badertscher
Outstanding Junior - Ella Poling
Outstanding Senior - Noah Mattson
110% Award - Holden Purdy
Star Greenhand - Chance Taylor
Star Chapter Farmer - Sidney Gossard
Dekalb Award - Nathan Mattson
Honorary Chapter Degree - Mr. Dan Lee
Hardin Northern High School graduate Ashton Stevenson, a senior at West Virginia University with a double major in Forestry Resource Management and Recreation, Parks and Tourism Resources, is the recipient of the Unversity Club II 2019 scholarship.
Ashton has a 3.68 grade point average and is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars at West Virginia University.
Other activities include a WVU Davis College Ambassador for three years, treasurer of the College Professional Recreation and Parks Society for two years, vice president of the WVU Woodsmen/Timbersports Team and chair of the WVU Intramural Teams Committee for two years.
“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).
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.
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.
