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License plate owner must be an Ada Bulldog fan even though it has a Hancock County sticker. The Icon spotted this plate parked at ONU during a high school basketball tourney at King Horn.

ONU business students are VITA providers

By Monty Siekerman
Again this year, taxpayers can receive free income tax assistance from ONU business students through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA).

The service is available from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings through April 6 at the business college.

Tickets to the Ada Athletic Boosters reverse raffle are now on sale. The grand prize: $10,000.

Three hundred tickets will be sold at $100 each. To buy a ticket, call Lisa Conley at 419-235-6562 or go to [email protected].

Ms. Conley described how the proceeds from the 8th annual reverse raffle will be used to benefit athletes:

The truck/tractor pull, called Hillbilly Sound, will be coming to Ada War Memorial Park again this year in early summer. Put this on your calendar: 7-11 p.m. on Friday, June 8. There is usually a pull in the early fall, as well.

With lots of people on campus

By Monty Siekerman
The Ottawa-Glandorf side filled King Horn to the rafters on Tuesday evening ...and the crowd went home happy.

O-G defeated Liberty-Benton 48-37 in the regional to advance to the state Elite 8 in Division III girls basketball. During the season, L-B had a nearly perfect record, having lost only one game and that was to its nemesis O-G.

King Horn was a busy place Tuesday with Napoleon taking on Toledo Rogers later in the evening. Tonight (Wednesday, March 7) the boys Division II will play for the district title. Defiance takes on Shawnee at 6:15 p.m. while Wauseon and Van Wert look for a win in the 8 p.m. contest.

For 3-5-year-olds at Liberty Village Preschool

An Ada location is one of four in Hardin County offering preschool screening for the 2018-19 school year.

Liberty Village Preschool, 725 W. North Ave., Ada, will offer screening on Thursday, March 8.  The screening is through the Midwest Regional Educational Service Center.

Screening is for youth ages 3 to 5. Call Midwest Regional ESC to schedule an appointment at 937-599-5195, extension 3020 or email Penny Carrig at [email protected].

These screens help fill classrooms at Little River (USV), Victory Garden (Ridgemont), Northern Lights (Hardin Northern) and Liberty Village (Ada).

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