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Memorial Run started in Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, June 1, 2016

By Monty Siekerman
About 50 motorcycles lined Main Street on Saturday afternoon  when the A.B.A.T.E. Memorial Run began at Little Mexico in Ada.

Matt Haught of Botkins exits his Harley, one of many lining both sides of Main downtown.

The 120-mile run takes the bikers to five places during the day. All proceeds go to the local A.B.A.T.E. chapter to "remember our brothers and sisters of the wind and let them know they may be down but not forgotten."

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What you've waited for...the final Ada school honor roll of the year

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, June 1, 2016

School's out and here's proof: It's the final Ada school honor roll of 2015-16.

Students listed are from fourth graders on up to seniors.

You'll find all the names in the attachment below.

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Ada High School graduates 65 in the class of 2016

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, May 29, 2016

By Monty Siekerman

Sixty-five seniors (including 14 from Apollo Career Center) graduated at Ada High School on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the high school gymnasium.

The Class of 2016 commencement featured the high school band, a moment of reflection by Sidney Faine, a welcome by Principal Robin VanBuskirk, greetings from Apollo Career Center by Pam Downing.

After two choir numbers, Superintendent Suzanne Darmer announced the salutatorian and eight valedictorians. 

Retired teacher D. lyn Davis gave the commencement address. 

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Forest beekeeper buzzing with business

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, May 27, 2016

By Amy Eddings

The phrase "busy as a bee" applies not only to bees this time of year, when flowering plants are in bloom, but to beekeepers, too.  Just ask Michael Lablonski of Mike's Bees and Honey of neighboring Forest.

"I've probably got 40 to 50 orders for queens going back to last year that I've got to fill," he told the Ada Icon. The long, cool spring, he said, has meant sluggish hives, and that, in turn, has meant fewer bees, fewer queens and less honey.  This week's warm weather has been welcomed by bee and beekeeper alike.

"It's absolutely fabulous that things are finally going better," he said.  

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Meet the Ada High School graduating class of 2016

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Here's the Ada High School graduating class of 2016 (a larger photo is an attachment at the bottom of this story.)

Members participate in commencement at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 29, at the school.

Class members follow:

Brittany Ann Ackerman, Rand Ali Abdullatef, Blake Christopher Ansley, Travis Edward Archer, Tyler Thomas Archer, Bryan J Batyk, Zachary Alexander Beckwith, Benjamin Christopher Bowers, Alexandra Marie Boyadzhiev,

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News flash: Julius Caesar murdered - read all about it from Ada sophomores

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Despite the fact that “nobody reads newspapers anymore!” – so said Ada sophomores – students in Melody Veltri’s English classes actually created printed newspapers and read them.

You may thank Shakespeare and Julius Caesar on this sophomore discovery. The newspapers were a product of the sophomore’s reading assignment of Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar.” Students worked in small groups to create their newspapers.

“Students needed to use information from the play and from their own research of Roman lifestyles and of Julius Caesar to create their newspapers,” she told The Icon.

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