Miss Minnesota, Rebecca Yeh, 20, an Ohio Northern University student, won the $2,000 scholarship in the talent competition in the Miss America contest, held Thursday night in Atlantic City.
She performed a violin solo and is reported to have said, "I'm going to sleep with this," while holding her award after the competition.
Yeh, who wants to be a pharmacist, said she has no plans to pursue a career in music, but loves playing the violin for others. She began taking lessons at 4 years of age because she was trying to keep up with her older brother, she said.
The secret’s out. The Buy Ada First Committee, planning the community’s fourth cash mob, this week announced the location of the event.
The cash mob takes place at one of Ada’s prominent retail businesses, Carol Slane Florist, 410 S. Main St., Ada, from 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 17.
“Shannan Brown welcomed our invitation to host this event,” said Heather Cox, member of the committee. “We hope to continue more cash mobs in Ada in the future.”
It could be the largest single garage sale in Hardin County - make that northwestern Ohio.
"It's" Wilson Sporting Goods Co., football garage sale. This year's sale is from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 14, on the Wilson property.
The sale brings a couple thousand football and other sports fans to Ada for a once-a-year chance for footballs including overruns, blemished footballs, scrap footballs and many other miscellaneous sporting goods items.
The company is already staking out the area where sale items will be on sale.
The first nine days of September weather have ranged fairly wide, according to local weather observer Guy Verhoff.
Our highest temperature during that time was 91 degrees (F) on Monday, September 9 and our lowest temperature was 47 degrees (F) during the overnight of September 6.
Notably, we had very little rain in the first nine days of September. The first and second days held less than four one-hundredths of an inch of rain. And no rain has fallen since.
The greatest temperature swing in one day was on Monday, September 9 when the high was 91 degrees and the low was 57 degrees, a difference of 34 degrees in one day.
The Ada First United Methodist Women will serve a lunch at the N-Men’s Club from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Harvest and Herb Fest, Saturday, Sept. 21.
The a la carte menu will include chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, beef and chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, salad, brownie, fruit pies, and beverages.
A drawing for the queen-size quilt, designed by Cathy Smalley, “Butterfly Garden,” will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the N-Men’s Club. Tickets will be available for the quilt. Proceeds from food and ticket sales support missions.
Ohio Northern University’s Colleges Against Cancer and Student Planning Committee are hosting a 5K Glow Run on Friday, Sept. 20, at 8 pm. The run will be located at the Green Monster, which is the track surrounding the perimeter of the campus. The race will begin by the mud volleyball courts, east of the football field.
Registration is $15 and includes a T-shirt and glow sticks. The first 15 participants to register will receive extra glow gear. To guarantee a T-shirt, please register by Friday, Sept. 13.
This event is open not only to ONU students and faculty, but also Ada and the surrounding communities. All proceeds will go to Relay for Life.
