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President Heather Cox called the weekly meeting of the Ada Kiwanis Club to order at 12:00 noon on Tuesday March 4th at the New China Restaurant, Ada.

Jon Umphress offered the invocation.

In business:

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Ada High School artists are well represented in the 26th annual Kewpee High School Art Invitational now on exhibit at ArtsSpace/Lima, according to Gary Wells, art teacher.

The following Ada art students were recognized with special awards:

Ceramics
First place - Jessica Rojas, untitled piece

Paintings
Third place - Alexandra Boyadzhiev, 3 Faces

Photography
First place - Tessa Coulson, Sleep Tight
Third place - Hannah Price, Extreme Close-up

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Ada's Junior High quiz bowl team was runner-up in the Hardin County Junior HIgh Quiz Bowl Invitational held March 6. Here are members of the team with their trophy. Riverdale won the tournament.

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Ada won second place after a tie-breaker final round versus Kenton as both teams were 3-2 after the regular five matches.

Back row, from left:
Jacob Colwell, Melina Woods, Lyric Jones, Damon Francis, Austin Amburgey, Nathan Hurtig and Hunter Wells.

Front row, from left:
Sam Hibbard, Callee Young, Riley Davie, Kiarra Francis and Theo Hardesty

Gary Wells, not pictured, is the coach.

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15 minutes with Ben Neville, Ada High School senior

What classes are you taking this year?
Advanced Placement U.S. History, English 12 College Prep, Pre-Calculus-Trig, Physics, and French IV.

Are you set on your college plans next year?
I’m thinking seriously of attending ONU. I might major in criminal justice or business and then think about attending law school. I’ve already looked at Butler, Wisconsin and Ohio State.

What sports have you played at Ada?
I lettered in soccer four years, played baseball three years and for the first time ever, this spring, I’m running track.

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By Darlene Bowers
Possibly you’ve seen her on her bike with camera in mid-air, poised in readiness for a shot. Possibly you’ve seen her reclined in her front yard discovering the best lighting and best angle for sharing the magnificence of a hollyhock or other flower. Possibly you’ve seen her at ReStore where she’s volunteered for the past 7 ½ years.

Wherever you’ve seen her, you can be sure Karen Ward was pondering, contemplating, or dreaming of how to share her love of capturing treasures with her camera just as she did as a child on family camping trips.

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Steve Johnson of Ada is ready to make your St. Patrick’s Day celebration one to remember.

He is scheduling appearances for the St. Patrick’s weekend – this year’s St. P. Day falls on Monday, March 17 – and will perform on the bagpipes.

Johnson has been bagpipping for about four years.

“I started out as a drummer of the bagpipe band at the University of Notre Dame,” he told The Icon. “Then, later I became a piper for the band.”

He’ll perform in an authentic sold saffron color quilt. That’s because he’s of Irish descent and the traditional Irish kilt is actually a solid color rather than the tartan kilts of Scotland.

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