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Maybe your grandparent is in this choir

Is one of your grandparents or better yet, great-grandparents in this photos?
It's the Ada Senior High Choir from the 1956-57 school year.

No first names listed, but lots of familiar last names here. Mrs. Hixson is the director. Were those robes purple?

I Peter 5:7

Here's a license plate found in the Bluffton school parking lot. You'll find it on a silver Mercury Monterey. I Peter, chapter 5, verse 7 offers an encouraging message to everyone.

ReStore closed Dec. 21 through Jan. 4

ReStore will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 21, through Wednesday Jan. 4.  The community center will reopen at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 5.

Partridges in a pear tree?

Not partridges, not a pear tree...but somehow reminiscent. Ken Collins took this "12 Days of Christmas" photo last week in Ada. It certainly makes the season feel right.

Junior high Aspirations team creates Act of Kindness recognition

November winners: Carlie Oldfield, Spencer Wall, Timber Blankenship, Chance Taylor, Rylie Roser, Jack Weatherly

The Act of Kindess Program launched this school year at Ada, according to Bill Faine, teacher and junior high Aspirations advisor. It's a program created by the junior high Aspirations/advisory team.

"This program is where the junior high teachers and Mr. Lee observe students who, throughtout the month, consistently and naturally display of kindness," he said. "We select a boy and girl from each of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and these are the November winners:

6th grade = Carlie Oldfield and Spencer Wall
7th grade = Timber Blankenship and Chance Taylor
8th grade = Rylie Roser and Jack Weatherly

Community Health Professionals invite organizations, businesses for sponsorship

Monthly Bingo for Ada area seniors

Deb Curlis of Community Health Professionals, is asking Ada businesses and interested community groups for support of its monthly Bingo and free lunch program at CHP.

"For the past nine years, Richland Manor has provided a free lunch and Bingo the first Wednesday of every month for area seniors," she said. "Since Richland Manor will be moving soon to Delphos they are no longer going to provide this monthly service.

Curlis said that there are usually 40 to 60 seniors attending this event each month. 

So that the program doesn’t end, Community Health Professionals will provide the lunch for 2017. 

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