The Apollo Career Center Culinary Arts students performed top notch in the recent state FCCLA competitions. These students will be attending the National FCCLA skills competition held in July in Nashville, Tennessee.
They each received a $6,000 scholarship for each gold rating. Eric Teidosio, Shawnee, Dining Room Attendant; Lauren Harvey, Elida, Food Innovations; Sarah Bogart, Columbus Grove, Tori Hunt, Shawnee, and Kristen Kryzkowski, Bath, Chapter Showcase Team; Eric Teodosio, Shawnee, Eric Otto, Columbus Grove, and Amanda Shafer - Columbus Grove, Entrepreneurship Team.
President Myrna McCurdy called the weekly meeting of the Ada Kiwanis Club on order at noon on Tuesday April 30 at McIntosh Center, ONU.
The invocation was offered by Jon Umphress.
Elizabeth McKinney, Circle K, was welcomed as a guest.
The birthday of member Al Baillis (May 11) was noted.
The membership anniversary of Jon Umphress (May 6, 1997) was also noted.
The wedding 36th anniversary of Jeff and Schulman on May 7 was noted.
It was reported that member Charles Van Dyne has been named the Ohio Elk’s Man of the Year.
It’s difficult to know which the residents and contestants at Richland Manor’s pie baking contest enjoyed more – making their pies, or tasting them, as bakers and tasters alike lined up to sample the entries at the campus’ Pie Baking Contest recently.
Prior to the contest, Richland Manor residents Ruth Wildermuth and Michele Cardone made a homemade crust for the Caramel Chocolate Apple Crunch Pie they were entering in the contest on behalf of the residents Cooking Club.
“I’m so excited to enter our pie in the contest,” Ruth said. “I’m especially looking forward to tasting the other entries.”
The Ada Kiwanis Club sponsored two Ada students, Shelby Hazelton and Mackenzie Wills, to the Ohio Kiwanis Key Leader program recently. The event was held at Recreations Unlimited in Ashley, Ohio.
Key Leader is a weekend experiential leadership program for today's young leaders. This life-changing event focuses on service leadership as the first, most meaningful leadership-development experience.
A Key Leader will learn the most important lesson of leadership—it comes from helping others succeed.
In the country between Cairo and Columbus Grove, OH.
From where and when did you graduate from high school?
Bath High 1990
How did you end up attending Goshen College? Were you a music major? You also have a master's degree, correct?
My church introduced me to Goshen College and attended music camp there each summer. I studied piano performance. My Master of Arts in Piano Pedagogy is from The Ohio State University. I studied composition and music theory at BGSU.
What was your first job? What did you learn from that?
Welcome to The Ada Icon's newest feature: "“Who Am I?”
Alisa Armbrecht creates these Ada brain-teasers, and, no, we won't reveal the mystery person's identity (could be a man, could be a woman, could be a student) until you stew on it for a few days.
