Ada Kiwanis Club officers, who were elected in May, assumed their year-long duties today.
They include Joe Ferguson, president; Marlene Hoorman, vice president; Jon Umphress, secretary; and Bryan Marshall, treasurer. Harold Friesner and Jack Jeffery, immediate past president, will be board members along with the officers.
Joe Ferguson joined Kiwanis in 2003. He previously served as vice president and president of the club, which has as its motto, “Serving children of the world, one child at a time.”
The Ada High School Marching Band and Color Guard earned a superior rating and first place in Class C Saturday, Sept. 28 at the Buckeye Invitational.
In addition the group earned honors for Best Color Guard, Best General Effect, Best Marching, and Best Visual Effect in class C.
The Buckeye Invitational is a high school band competition sponsored by the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA). It is hosted by The Ohio State University Marching Band and takes place in historic Ohio Stadium.
Liberty National Bank in Ada will celebrate its 125th anniversary with an open house from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 118 S. Main. There will be specials throughout the week, as well. Employees at the Ada branch are (standing, from left) Jodi Dearth, Rachel Law, Kim Bowen, Bryan Marshall, Brandt Miller, Heather Cox, Angela Hersh; (sitting) Abby Wright, Corsie Arn, Linda Fleming. Not pictured Denae Bassitt, Michelle Lawrence, and Sue Thompson. (Monty Siekerman photo)
FOREST PARK, Mo. — Ada High School grad Zach Beaschler, a freshman on the ONU tennis team, and Andrew Cochran of Wooster each won matches to lead the Ohio Northern men's tennis team at the ITA Central Regional Championships Friday and Saturday at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center.
Beaschler went 1-1 in the main 128-man draw, winning his first round match 7-5, 6-1 over Hugo Kouhkna of Transylvania (Ky.) before falling 6-1, 6-1 to 15th-seeded Tytus Metzler of Kalamazoo (Mich.) in the round of 64 for the Polar Bears (0-1 overall).
MARIETTA — The Ohio Northern women's soccer team opened the Ohio Athletic Conference portion of its schedule with a convincing 4-0 victory at Marietta on Saturday afternoon at Marietta Field.
The Polar Bears (7-2-0 overall, 1-0-0 OAC) scored three times in a 14-minute span and cruised from there to their 18th consecutive OAC regular season victory. The Pioneers fall to 2-5-2, 0-1-0.