Pete Previte, of true Italian heritage, and Heather Cox offer cannoli they helped make to diners at the Kiwanis Club annual spaghetti dinner last Thursday night at the Ada Schools. Kiwanians served 230 meals, the profit going to youth programs.
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• From left: Sharon Fields, Harold Cotsamire, Sharon Hubbell, Deryl Fleming.
• Myrna McCurdy
(Monty Siekerman photos)
Do you know where the phrase "saved by the bell" comes from?
During a recent talk at the Ada Public Library, Doris Blum (left) and Kathy Hines explained that a century ago, and previous to that time, it was unclear if a person was truly dead.
So, sometimes a bell was tied to a string and attached to the hand of someone thought to be deceased. A family member or friend stayed up all night with the "deceased."
If the bell rang because the "deceased" moved, then the "deceased" was still alive...saved by the bell.
Bagging Candy Tuesday for the Ada Kiwanis Club's Halloween Parade were (from left) Jon Umphress Scott Allison, Peter Previte, Marilyn Green, Charles Van Dyne, Bruce Neely, Carol Friesner, John Berg, Sandy Neely, Tom Kier and Bill Fuller.
The Kiwanis Halloween parade is tonight (Monday, Oct. 24).
By Monty Siekerman
Two members of the Hardin County Genealogy Society (right) chat with Jennifer Carman, of rural Alger, following a talk about cemeteries in Hardin County held at the Ada Public Library on Tuesday evening.
The speakers, Kathy Hines (center) and Doris Blum, both Society officers, said symbols on gravestones have various meanings, for example:
Story and photos by Amy Eddings
Bryan Boulanger remembers when he saw, really saw, the night sky.
It was October 2007. Boulanger was camping with two friends in the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, where he had just started teaching civil engineering at Texas A&M University. He was 31 years old.
“We slept on the ground, and the night sky was amazing,” he said. “It was so fantastic, it was hard to fall asleep.”
