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Students are photographed left to right, bottom to top.

119 youth from all over Ohio participated in the Ohio State Fair rabbit contests. Of those 119, eight were from Hardin County youth. The competitions included Rabbit Skillathon, Breed Identification, Judging and Showmanship. In the Judging contest, youth judged four rabbits of four different breeds against the American Rabbit Breeders Association Standard of Perfection and placed each according to compliance with the standard.

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VIDEO AND MORE PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM

A rite of summer - Ada High School band camp. It's going on right now and the band is tuning up for football games, parades and competitions.

Can't you just feel the tempo? Here's a quick look at some band camp photos and a video. 

The clarinet player in the photo accompanying this story is Alex Nickleson. More photos are in the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Ada HS band camp, 7 31 13

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For our 4-H meeting on July 28, first we practiced showmanship. Raina England did a 4-H project on volleyball. Levi England did his on cautions of welding. Justin England did his on types of catfish in Ohio. 

Livestock judging is on August 7th from 9 to 5 at Hardin county fairgrounds, 4-h swim party is august 5th. August 10th we will be having a petting zoo for the community at the F&M picnic.

Our next meeting will be at Hazelton’s to practice showmanship at 6:00p.m August 25.

Hope to see you at our petting zoo.

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Pictured: Members who didn't use plastic gloves when tie-dying their club shirts. Left to right: Landyn Hijma, Dillon Beiler, Meadow Cromer, Isaac Davis, and Preston Brien.

By Faith Holbrook, Reporter
The last meeting of the Hootenannies 4-H Club was held at the farm of Advisor Grant Mizek.  It was opened by president Laura Spradlin.  Megan Williams asked for members' favorite zoo animal for roll call.

The Hardin Co Triathlon was discussed.  Members competing will be Landyn Hijma, Seth Davis and Preston Brien.

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Myrna McCurdy called the weekly meeting of the Ada Kiwanis Club to order at 12:01 p.m. in Conference Room #7, McIntosh Center, ONU.

The invocation was offered by Jon Umphress

The member birthdays of Harold Friesner, July 21; John Berg, July 25; and Bob McCurdy, July 29 were noted.

It was noted that recent Chicken BBQ was a very successful project.

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Ada High School cheerleaders will compete in two area county fairs this month, according to Jami Dellifeld. Here's the information:

 

Seneca County Fair - Saturday, July 27
100 Hopewell Ave, Tiffin, in the new Entertainment Building
Competition begins at 10 a.m.
Admission is $6

Auglaize County Fair - Monday, July 29
Auglaize County Fairgrounds at Grandstand
1001 Fairview Drive, Wapakoneta
Competition begins at 7:30 p.m.
Admission to Grandstand is free. Must to pay to enter fair.

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