Members of the Ada Kiwanis Club participated in a service project earlier this week in downtown Ada.
Members prepared and served the weekly community meal at the ReStore Community Center. The meal, consisting of spaghetti, salad, bread sticks and cannoli’s was served from 4 to 6 p.m.
Members began preparations in early afternoon. The club served 28 adults and 12 children at the meal for a total of 40. The crowd, which was smaller than usual, was likely due to the extremely cold weather conditions.
A young performer with an Ada connection will perform in the Saturday, Feb. 23, Ohio Has Talent competition, at Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Van Wert.
Raegan Cox, 14, a Miller City HS freshman, is the performer. Her father is Craig Cox and mother is Heather Cox, assistant vice president/director of marketing at Liberty National Bank. Raegan has performed in Ada at several events including the Harvest and Herb Festival and Community Health Professionals Beacon of Hope.
She has been singing and entertaining people for most of her life. In 5th grade, she was accepted in an All-State Choir and performed with 88 other 4thand 5th graders at Capital University.
Several Hardin County OSU Extension professionals were recognized by Ohio State University Extension and the Joint Council of Extension Professionals for their outstanding contribution to and support of Extension programming in Hardin County.
Jami Dellifield received the Visionary Leadership Award for her accomplishments in leading Ohio State University Extension forward in addressing the opioid crisis, rural and farm stress crisis, and mental health education.
Dellifield was also awarded the Early-Career Service Award, recognizing her as the top Family and Consumer Sciences Educator with 10-years or less experience in the state.
After 25 years of service, Michael Schoenhofer, executive director of the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin Counties will retire on Jan. 31.
Schoenhofer has served as president of the Lima Rotary Club and president of the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities. He has served on the Governor’s Advisory Board at the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, the Social Work Advisory Board at Bluffton University, the Allen County Health Department Board, and West Central Learning Academy’s Board.
Carrie Woodruff, Ada High School grad and Ada resident, is the 2019 Foodservice Achievement Management Excellence (FAME) Silver Special Achievement Award recipient.
She is food service director of Lima City Schools. She will receive the award at the FAME award ceremony in Austin, Texas, during the School Nutrition Association’s School Nutrition Industry Conference this weekend.
The award goes to a director who demonstrates exceptional ability to recognize and solve problems unique to small districts.
Photos and story by Carl Wilkerson|
While you were inside Saturday morning preparing for the first winter storm of the season Ada Scout Troop 124 joined 29 other troops from around northwest Ohio for the annual Klondike Derby at Camp Berry just south of Findlay.
The derby is a test of the scouts’ physical endurance in pushing their own troop-built sled over several miles of trails and terrain and testing their outdoor skills at seven stops along the way.
The scouts had to build fires, administer aid first aid, tie knots, identify wildlife tracks, saw logs, orienteer, and team-build a project as quickly as possible.
