The Ada School District is sponsoring a Veterans’ Day breakfast on Monday, Nov. 11, at 8 a.m. in the school cafeteria.
"The school invites all veterans and their families as well as active duty service personnel who live, work or
worship within the boundaries of the Ada Exempted Village Schools to honor us with their presence on this day,” said David Lusk, Ada teacher.
If you would like to attend the breakfast, call the Ada High School Office at 419-634-2746 to make your reservation. The speaker for the morning is Wynn Hauenstein.
Order a meal at El Campo and you will help the United Way of Hardin County.
Enrique Cabrera, manager of El Campo Mexican Restaurant, Ada, is ready to welcome patrons for the first “All Out “for this year’s campaign for United Way of Hardin County on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
The restaurant, open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., will donate a percentage of it sales that day to United Way.
"United Way of Hardin County is very appreciative of the support of restaurants who sponsor these events to kickoff the annual campaign," said Phyllis Griffith of the United Way.
She added that monies go to 21 local agencies who offer support throughout the county.
The Hardin County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) will be hold its full-scale emergency drill on Friday, Oct. 11 and Saturday, Oct. 12 in the Village of Forest.
During daytime hours on both days, residents may notice an increased presence of firefighter, EMS, law enforcement, and hazardous materials team personnel.
Residents may also notice an increased amount of emergency vehicles, lights, sirens, and medical helicopter traffic. Additionally, the public service communication tool Nixel will be utilized to send public safety messages. Those messages will be marked as being part of the drill.
Vendor spots are still available for this month's Ada Music Boosters crafts show.
The boosters will host the show in the 1986 gym from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday Oct.19.
General admission is $3. Vendor spots are $35 and a few spaces are still available. Contact Lori Poling at [email protected] or Arlene Allison at [email protected] for more vendor booth details.
In a new Ohio school rankings based upon the 2019 report card grades, and adjusted for household school district income, Ada schools is ranked 15th in the state – out of 608 school districts.
For the last two years, Richard Exner, a data analyst out of Cleveland, has re-ranked Ohio’s schools on their results compared to student family income.
His ranking is based on how did schools do when they are adjusted for wealth. Ada’s ranking as 15th in jump from last year’s ranking of 23rd.
The following two charts show the top 22 schools in this ranking system.
