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Ada CIC elects six trustees, approves 2014 budget

The Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) elected six trustees for a two-year term beginning Jan. 1., and adopted a 2014 budget during its December meeting held Wednesday at McIntosh Center.

Trustees elected to a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 31, 2015, are Deb Curlis, Crystal Huffer, Bryan Marshall, James Meyer, David Retterer and Fred Steiner.

They join current trustees whose terms expire Dec. 31, 2014: Beth Fenton, Dick Lawrence, Angela Polachek, Norm Rex, Don Traxler and Jimmy Wilson.

Officers will be elected at the Jan. 15 board meeting.

The 2014 budget, approved on Wednesday, has projected revenue of $1,337 and projected expenses at $858.

Grain marketing webinar series offered online

Growers, who want to experience grain marketing using real-world strategies without any of the

real-world risks, can take advantage of a series of courses taught by Dr. Matt Roberts from Ohio

State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

Participants will learn how to use futures and options; make a marketing plan to fit their

farm business; use crop insurance as a grain marketing tool; and how to understand financial

statement analysis in relationship to their grain marketing plan.

The courses, to be offered Jan. 7 and 21; Feb.4 and 18; and March 4, will be taught online and

Lots of Ada winners in Hardin County's Buy Local First Holiday Contest

The Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance announced the winner of the Buy Local First Holiday Contest, which ran from Nov. 9 - Dec. 12.

The Alliance partnered with the Buy Ada First Committee and 45 local businesses on the event. There were over $1,200 in prizes given away thanks to the participating businesses.

The Buy Local First Holiday Contest was a way to educate the community on the benefits of buying local and to encourage shoppers to buy local this holiday season.

That's 8.5 inches of snowfall from Dec. 13 to 16

When it rains it pours and when it snows it really snows.

Guy Verhoff, Icon weather observer, reports that the snowfall of Saturday, Dec. 14, was 6.3 inches.

Add one-half inch of snow on the 13th and 1.7 inches on the 16th and suddenly we’ve accumulated 8.5 inches – not counting snowfall on Dec. 17.

To add to the wintry conditions, the low temperature of the month reached minus 2 on Dec. 12.

Open the attachment at the bottom of this story for the daily December weather summary.

Late-year tax moves take some of the bite out of tax time

The year is fast drawing to a close, but the Internal Revenue Service wants taxpayers to know that they still have time to take action for the 2013 tax year. The IRS offers eight year-end tax moves and three additional tips that will help make things a bit easier come tax return filing season early next year.

$6,000 in prizes in 2014 Bluffton Center for Entrepreneur Business Plan Competition

Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs has announced prize money and seminar dates its 2014 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.

First place prize is $5,000 in business start-up costs and a one-year BCE client program membership. Second place is $1,000 in start-up costs and a one-year BCE client program membership. Third place is a one-year BCE client program membership.

AN APPLICATION FORM IS IN AN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

This is BCE’s fifth business plan competition and it recognizes the late Ropp Triplett, long-time Bluffton industrial leader and entrepreneur.

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