Former Councilman Bob Adaska Running for Ward 4 Seat

Former City Councilman Bob Adaska, who was a councilmember from 1990 to 1994, filed his petitions with the Summit County Board of Elections to run for the Ward 4 seat in November. 

Mary Bednar, who had planned to run for re-election in Ward 4, was disqualified from the ballot because of two campaign checks she wrote that didn't clear from a closed account. Adaska filed the challenge with the board of elections. 

Bednar plans to seek re-election as a write-in candidate this November after being removed from the ballot by the Summit County Board of Elections.

Adaska ran for at-large council in 2011 and lost. 

Adaska, 58, has lived in Ward 4 for the past 26 years and is a 1973 Stow-Munroe Falls High School graduate. He enlisted in the Air Force and was was an Honor Graduate from the Air Force School of Applied Aero-space Sciences where he studied Jet Aircraft Mechanics. After an honorable discharge, Adaska said he moved back to Stow where he met his wife Pam and started his own home improvement business. In 1987 Adaska built his own home in Wyoga Lake Estates where he and his wife Pam of 33 years currently live. 

When he was on council, Adaska served as the chairman of the roads and safety and public improvements committees. 

In a press release, Adaska credits himself with helping to resolve an age old dispute with Summit County over the ownership of the Stow Water System. He said he encouraged both sides to meet and work out the conditions to return ownership to the city for management and thereby keeping the System in good repair and the water rates as low as possible.

Following a huge storm and local flooding in the early 1990’s, Adaska said he went to work on improving the sanitary sewer and storm water systems in the Lynwood-Gilwood areas of the city. Together with city of Stow and Summit County Engineers, a $5 million repair plan was developed to improve these systems to keep area basements from flooding.

Adaska made a suggestion to locate all new cell towers in the city on public land which is helping to generate additional revenue to the city and schools even to this day.

Adaska said that it is important to have new positive input into the Stow administration especially during these hard economic times. Adaska said in a prepared statement that, "35 years as a small business owner and four years of previous experience serving on the Stow City Council will make him a valuable source of new ideas as the city moves forward and looks for ways to increase revenue and make operations more efficient."