Friends and neighbors, relatives and strangers have opened their hearts and pocketbooks for Sam’s funeral expenses. A GoFundMe account was set up with donations reaching $8,200 as of Sunday night. The goal is $8,400.
Samuel (Sam...Sammy) Rowold was only 13 years old when he passed away Feb. 23 in a pond near his home just northeast of Ada. The teenager was non-verbal autistic.
To give, go to:
GoFundMe.com
Then, at the top of the page in the Search box, type Sam’s Funeral Expense.
Donations above the cost of the funeral will be given to the Autism Support Group from Hardin County to buy GPS bracelets for other autistic children to help keep them safe.
The Ada Academic Boosters and Ada Music Boosters would like to thank the community for their support of the sixth annual purse and jewelry raffle held Feb. 18 to benefit Ada School students.
About $12,000 was raised for awards, scholarships, and programming.
By Monty Siekerman
“If March comes in like a lion, it will go out as a lamb,” says weather folklore. Thursday, March 1, in Ada saw nearly two inches of rain, wind gusts to near 40 mph, then snow, which all qualify as roaring-lion weather. We can look forward to weather like a docile lamb by month’s end. No lyin.
If you don’t believe that March weather forecast, pick one of these:
• A dry March and a wet May? Fill barns and bays with corn and hay.
• As it rains in March, so it rains in June.
• March winds and April showers? Bring forth May flowers.
• So many mists in March you see, so many frosts in May will be.
It's March! Here's some events on the Ada school calendar in the next 31 days.
March 5th to 9th: NO SCHOOL SPRING BREAK
March 15th: School Board meeting @6:00 pm Board Office
March 16th: Interclass @ 7:00 pm in auditorium
March 23rd: Grade cards sent home with students
March 27th: 2 Hr Early Dismissal for Staff Development meeting
March 30th to April 2: NO SCHOOL Easter break
TRACK: Any high school or junior high student planning on participating in track and field can stop in Coach Craig's room and pick up a spirit pack form. Spirit Packs are due by Friday, March 9th.
