The Ada Kiwanis Club awarded seven scholarships to Ada High School graduating seniors at the 36th annual senior honor awards dinner held at the school.
The total amount presented was $3,950.00.
Ada Kiwanis Club President Tom Kier made the presentations to the following graduating seniors: Meredith Marshall, Elizabeth Milks, Kaitlyn Long, Makayla Callahan, Shaheed Hasan Khan, Kyli Lause and Madeline Skiver.
Kier noted that the club has been privileged to present club scholarships for many years and that this year marks the first year that the club has presented seven scholarships.
This is Angel. She is a one year old female beagle mix, She weighs 25 pounds. Can you provide her with a forever home?
To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.
Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.
The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.
Ada High School College Preparatory English students, in a class taught by Melody Veltri, were challenged with the question "What do you believe?" This story focuses on that project.
Question: What do you believe?
Mrs. Veltri posed this to her students.
“I asked students to write a statement of personal beliefs,” she said. “This is challenging. It requires such intimacy that no one else can do it for you.”
Offering several suggestions for the assignment, these included telling a story, being brief, naming your belief, being positive and being personal.
Ada High School seniors were recognized on May 17 during the senior honors awards ceremony.
Rielyn Castle, Taryn Fullom, Meredith Marshall and Elizabeth Milks were named valedictorians, while Ashley Breidenbach was named salutatorian. A story about those students is above.
Many other students received special awards and scholarships and they were also recognized on May 17. Those student follow:
By Sidney Gossard, Ada FFA Reporter
Five Ada Future Farmers of America Chapter members received state degrees at the recent Ohio FFA convention.
In front of nearly 9,000 members, parents and guests, the following juniors and seniors were recognized for their achievements:
• Justin Light
• Maddie Gossard
• Caitlyn Stover
• Hunter Purdy
• Ashley Breidenbach
According to Ada High FFA records, this is the greatest number of students to ever earn state degrees in one year.
