By Monty Siekerman
Longtime Ada/Liberty Fire Chief Jay Epley was named Citizen of the Year during the 51st annual Town and Gown banquet on Monday evening in McIntosh Center ballroom. More than 200 people attended the gala event.
A Hardin County farm boy who served 22 years in the National Guard, Jay is most known to many for his incredibly long run of 38 years as fire chief. He has been a member of the department for nearly 50 years.
In accepting the award he thanked the voters for their support of levies and his wife of 49 years, Linda, and daughters.
By Monty Siekerman
The Ada Icon caught up with Amos Wolber at the Harold and Nancy Barker home where Amos was filling a tank with fuel for his riding mower. In two months, Amos will be 95 years old...and he's still going strong.
Amos continues to repair lawnmowers, even make the mower parts, if needed. He's been a machinist most of his life, having learned the trade at Lima Locomotive, which turned into Lima Baldwin Hamilton, which turned into Clark Equipment, which finally closed the facility in Lima.
Amos was born in Ada, but lived elsewhere. In his youth, he took farm jobs in various states.
By Monty Siekerman
As a service project, the brothers of Phi Mu Delta fraternity clear the plants on Oct. 29 from the Village Garden which is run by ReStore so that some people can grow some of their own food.
Families from China and Bangladesh, who now live in Ada, as well as those born and raised here took advantage of the free plots of land this year, according to Karen Ward who has been coordinator of the ReStore project for several years.
By Monty Siekerman
Once a month, supporters of the Alger Public Library come together for good food and fun while all the time raising money for the library.
Here, the group of about 20 diners have some fun answering questions after the carry-in meal on Thursday. By the way, the teens won the second quiz game, mostly because the subject was children's fiction and the books were fresh in their mind. Nevertheless, the middle-angers and senior citizens gave it a valiant try.
A fundraising project, organized by Stacy Manns, was held Saturday at Community Health Professionals with a portion of the profit going to Polar Paws, an organization at ONU that helps train service dogs.
Stacy sells LuLaRoe clothing for adults and children.
She and several other consultants were on hand to sell their LuLaRoe wares and support Polar Paws.
There are nine service dogs on campus this semester. Polar Paws sold 2017 calendars that featured all the local pups-in-training, as well as bandanas for dogs.
