Ohio Northern University hosts a Pack Away Hunger event on Saturday with students, faculty and friends planning to pack 20,000 meals during a two-hour period.
The meals will go to alleviate hunger with 75 percent going to Haiti and the remainder remaining close to home at the West Ohio Food Bank in Lima and ReStore Community Center, Ada.
Pack Away Hunger event takes place in the Bear Cave in McIntosh Center.
Pack Away Hunger is a non-profit organization dedicated to greatly improving the lives of children and others who suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
Ada High School sophomores will be among nearly 750 sophomores in Apollo Career Center’s 11-member district visiting Apollo during 411Blast, Friday, Jan. 27.
Ada sophomores will visit Apollo during two sessions: noon to 12:58 p.m. and 1:02 to 2 p.m.
This day exposes students to career possibilities and paths that available to inhance their career or college success.
Students choose two programs of interest and then spend one-half day visiting those labs, meeting the instructors and participating in fun, interactive demos and activities.
There has been a steady increase in illnesses/absences among the students of Ada Schools. Respiratory symptoms of coughing, chest congestion, sore throat, runny nose and sneezing are among our students as well as the flu-like symptoms of fever, chills, headache and nausea. The spread of these airborne viruses can be controlled with prompt diagnosis and effective preventative measures.
A child needs to be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. Any child placed on antibiotics is contagious to his peers until the first full day of medication has been administered.
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.
