Ada School students will be collecting Pennies for Patients for the next three weeks with a goal of raising $2,000 for leukemia and lymphoma research and patience assistance.
Speaking at a kickoff assembly on Monday, Julie Thaxton, (pictured), junior high math teacher and Beta Club advisor, encouraged junior high students to raise funds for the project. The Beta Club, an honor society, is heading up the project.
Last year 1,300 schools in the area raised nearly $500,000. It was noted that those diagnosed in the 1960s had a 10 percent chance of living, when today the odds are 95 percent, so research is important.
Newsmen and TV trucks have been spotted in town several times recently because Ada is home of Wilson, NFL football maker, and the first-ever football drop Festival to be held on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Lima and Findlay media have covered the event, the Toledo Blade sent reporters here Monday, and on Tuesday WTOL and FOX TV news from Toledo talked with townspeople, toured the Wilson plant, and interviewed Festival organizers.
Pictured are Toledo TV cameraman Eric Recucha, sports director Dan Cummings, and plant manager Dan Riegle.
Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) has its sights set on 2017. CIC reorganized for the year on Jan. 18.
Officers and board members elected for 2017 are:
Jamie Hall, president
Brandt Miller, vice president
Eileen Peterman, secretary
Angela Polachek, treasurer
Miller and Peterman filled two board vacancies, with terms from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2018. Peterman’s term had expired and Dick Lawrence announced in December his retirement from the board.
Here's a Hardin County original. You'll see it around Ada on a cream-colored Cooper S. This driver must be a Washington Nationals baseball fan, or we've read this completely incorrectly.
Amy Eddings, cochair of the "Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival," stands by a Festival banner that hangs at Easter House Bed and Breakfast, 508 N. Main.
She and ONU First Lady Chris Burns DiBiasio head up the committee organizing the first-ever festival celebrating Ada as the Football-Making Capital of the World.
The banner was donated by Comstor Outdoor, one of several local businesses that are sponsoring the event.
The inaugural Ada football drop is set for Saturday, Feb. 4, the day before the Super Bowl.
