Ada Academic Boosters spiritware campaign is now underway for 2016-17.
The Boosters have a wide selection of t-shirts, hoodies, 1/4 zip pull-overs, polos, hats, scarfs, head bands, gloves and stadium blankets available to order.
Orders on the accompanying form must be turned in to Ada High School Booster's mailbox by Friday, Sept. 2.
A printer-friendly order blank is below.
For out-of-town persons ordering, send to:
Ada High School
725 West North St.
Ada, OH 45810
Ada High School junior and senior girls (ages 16 to 18) are invited to enter this year’s Harvest and Herb Festival Queen contest. This year’s festival is Saturday, Sept. 17.
Applications forms are at the bottom of this story and in the Ada High School office. The application deadline is 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 7. Judging takes place at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 11, in the second floor conference rooms in McIntosh Center at Ohio Northern University.
Contestants will complete three brief essays on:
• If you were to support a special cause or offer to volunteer for a special organization, which would it be and why?
Summer is over, but the Ada school library wants to know what Ada students read over the summer. There's a contest with prizes involved.
Students are invited to stop in the media centerfor contest details and your chance to win. Students and staff will also be entered into a drawing for any new books checked out between now and Friday, Aug. 26.
By Amy Eddings
Note: Ada chamber members held a "broom presentation" last week to the owners of Crafted by Us.
The "us" in Crafted by Us at 117 S. Main St., the newest business to open in Ada's historic downtown, is a trio of creative women: Terry Sayre, 48, and her daughters Brittany Galens, 28, and Marquita Metzger, 19.
"We all just wanted a store," said Sayre, "We just never had one."
The threesome, from Holland, a village west of Toledo, said they've talked for years of having a place to display and sell their handiwork.
Terry paints and loves to re-purpose flea market finds.
The painting and renovation of the Pennsy caboose in the Railroad Park downtown is finished. Mayor Dave Retterer will rededicate the new-looking railcar at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, during Harvest and Herb Fest. All are welcome to attend.
Here, Daphnie Shaw, 4, gives her approval. She is the daughter of Rob and Brittany Shaw.
Children love to climb the stairs, peek in the windows, and turn the clanky-clank wheel. The caboose has a new roof, new lettering, was repainted inside and out, and glass windows were installed.
