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F&M Picnic is here!

Gates open Saturday AM; parade at 9:30 a.m.
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, August 11, 2017

By Monty Siekerman
Ada football players helped set up tables and chairs at War Memorial Park on Friday in preparation for Farmers and Merchants Picnic on Saturday.
Here's the schedule:
8 a.m. OWHA halter and performance horse contest begins
8 a.m. gates open for tractor pulls
9:30 a.m. parade down Main Street
  (forms on West Lincoln, no preregistration required)
10 a.m., truck and tractor pull, Hardin County Pullers
10:30 a.m. welcome, flag raising, crowning of little princess and princess
11 a.m. pedal tractor pull for kids, main stage

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Pool closes with free swim Saturday

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, August 11, 2017

The Village pool at War Memorial Park closes on Saturday, but swimming that day will be free. The pool will conclude its summer swim and numerous activities with free admission from 1-8 p.m., during the F & M Picnic.

Shortly after the pool closes for the summer, a major renovation will begin, which will be concluded by the time the pool opens next May.

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Free pizza and swim today

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, August 11, 2017

Today (Friday) will be the last free lunch of the summer sponsored ReStore at War Memorial Park, but the summer program ends with a bang.

There will be a pizza party at the pool and free swimming from noon until 1 p.m.
ReStore has held free lunches and games for the youth of the community since school was dismissed in May.

Today's lunch, party and swim will be the last this year since school starts on Tuesday.

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Ada School Board will meet

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, August 11, 2017

The Ada school board will meet at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17, at the school.

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Scenes of Gene Autry Park

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, August 11, 2017

Ada Icon photog Ken Collins took a tour of Hardin County with camera in hand and didn't have to go far to see these scenes of Gene Autry Park, just one block west of the courthouse in Kenton.

Autry is known as  America's Favorite Singing Cowboy, having written and recorded hundreds of songs.

The Autry museum is located in LA. Although he died at the age of 91 in 1998, long before the take off of social media, his YouTube Channel has garnered more than a million views in just three years.

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A perennial that stops traffic

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, August 10, 2017

Ask Jim and Jean Neiswander how to grow a state-fair-winning dinner plate hibiscus because the one that recently started blooming in their front yard would qualify for such an honor. Here, Jean tends the Pink Elephant variety of hibiscus at her home on the corner of East Montfort and North Johnson. To get blooms like this, the plant requires TLC all season long, but the display is worth the effort.

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