Icon note: Several recent letters to the editor on the Icon concern the discontinuance of the Ada High School Winter Guard program. The following information is provided by the Ada Music Boosters to help explain Winter Guard to the general public. The information presented is not to take sides, but to educate others about Winter Guard.
Similar to Color Guard, Winter Guard is a combination of the use of flags, sabers, mock rifles, other equipment, dance, and interpretive movement in a choreographed routine to express emotions and tell stories through their use.
By Barb Lockard
Melody Veltri wasn’t sure what kind of response she’d get when she approached Ada High School students about competing in an Ethics Bowl. Veltri, an English instructor at the school, assumed some interest among high achieving students.
“The students on the Ethics Bowl teams are academically strong, but I didn’t make that a requirement,” said Veltri.
With 10 students expressing an interest, she has formed two teams of five who meet weekly to read cases.
Here's the daily weather summary for November from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
Snowfall on Nov. 11 reached 4.9 inches. Temperatures in the first 11 days of the month ranged from a high of 53 degrees on Nov. 6, to a low of 17 two days later.
At 7:41 a.m. Ada schools announced that school is cancelled for Tuesday, Nov. 12. Last night the school went on a 2-hour delay. The heavy and wet early winter snowfall is the cause.
