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15 minutes with Lani Garber

Posted by Staff on Sunday, October 15, 2023

Bulldog Staff Spotlight
Coordinated by the Ada Junior High-High School office staff

Meet Elaine (Lani) Garber, the American Sign Language instructor at the Ada Schools. 

Q. What is the one thing you cannot resist?
A. Chocolate and babies.

Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. My children or grandchildren being hurt.

Q. Where is your favorite place to be?
A. Sitting by my pond when the mosquitoes aren’t out

Q. Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why?
A. Up in the mountains of Colorado at Geneva Lake. It was peaceful.

Q. What’s the weirdest job you’ve ever had?
A. Raising mice for pet snake food.

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15 minutes with Victoria Ross and Alaina Robirds

Posted by Staff on Sunday, October 8, 2023

With Paula Scott

The Icon received a tip that Ada High School graduates Victoria Ross (college senior) and Alaina Robirds (college sophomore) are both playing in the Ohio University Marching 110. We recenly chatted about this life-changing experience. 

Q. Is it a coincidence you are both at Ohio University (O.U.)?

VICTORIA: In high school we were alway really good at encouraging each other to take whatever path would really benefit us the most and get us to the places we wanted to go, to reach our goals.

I like to think that telling Alaina of how much fun the Marching 110 is and what a family we have at O.U. I want to think I made it sound like a ‘must come’ kind of deal.”

ALAINA: Victoria is pretty spot on. I was looking at O.U. because I had a teacher who went [there. He said] “Oh you should totally look at it. It’s got a bunch of really great opportunities. Not just course work wise but extracurriculars, intramurals and so I was really drawn to O.U.… and because I had a really good support system here with Victoria.

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Hazelton-Hull engagement

Posted by Staff on Sunday, September 24, 2023

Travis and Rebecca Hazelton of Ada, Ohio announce the engagement of their daughter Audrey Hazelton to Ethan Hull. 

Audrey is a 2023 Bluffton University graduate in psychology and writing.  She is the granddaughter of Ken and Jeanette Hazelton of Ada, Ohio and the granddaughter of Konrad & Judy Schiefer of Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Ethan Hull is a 2023 graduate of Apollo as a Level II Firefighter and a 2022 graduate of Rhode State University as a Level II Paramedic  He is the son of Travis and Samantha Hull of Findlay, Ohio and the grandson of Gary and Cassandra Hull of Ada, Ohio.

The couple resides in Mason, Ohio and plan a May 2024 wedding in Lima, Ohio.

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15 minutes with Britton Devier

Posted by Staff on Saturday, September 23, 2023

Coordinated by the Ada Junior High-High School office staff

Bulldog Staff Spotlight

The following questions were answered by Britton Devier, Ed.D, Ada Schools K-12 Assistant Principal

Q. What is the one thing you cannot resist?
A. Fudge rounds

Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. loving someone who can't love me back

Q. Where is your favorite place to be?
A. Woods

Q. Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why?
A. Glacier National Park. B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

Q. What’s the weirdest job you’ve ever had?
A. No weird jobs, just weird people.

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Mullins and Stone discuss phonics improvement collaboration

Posted by Staff on Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Dr. Amy Mullins, associate professor of education and director of graduate programs in education at Bluffton University and Katrina Stone ’25, Bluffton University information technology major, will present the Colloquium, “Phonics Innovations: Technology and Education Departments Collaborating to Provide Literacy Tools” at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.

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15 minutes with teacher Zachary Dunn

Posted by Staff on Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Coordinated by the Ada Junior High-High School office staff

Bulldog Staff Spotlight

The following questions were answered by Zack Dunn, Ada High School chemistry and physics teacher. 

Q. What is the one thing you cannot resist?
A. I love a good discussion/debate. I know a lot of people view such things negatively and try to avoid them, but I think that they can be quite edifying if both parties enter into the discussion with open minds and treat each other respectfully.

Q. Where is your favorite place to be?
A. My favorite place to be is at my computer playing video games with my friends.

Q. Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why?
A. I really enjoyed a trip I took with my family to Niagra Falls.  It was amazing to observe the natural beauty and power of the falls. A close second would probably be a trip I took to New Orleans for a chemistry conference.

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