January 2015

A Main Street Ada business that touches virtually every organization in the community received the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce’s highest award on Jan. 21.

Liberty National Bank is the 2014 Ada outstanding business of the year. The recognition took place at the chamber’s annual dinner at The Wishing Well at ONU.

In accepting the award for the bank, Ronald Zimmerly, bank CEO, said that Liberty National Bank and the Ada community is a partnership.

Becky Neville of Beacon Realty announces a new featured home of the week. The listing is at 2044 County Road 90, Alger. For complete details on this listing open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Beacon Realty
208 N. Main St.
Ada
419-634-0021

Approximately 650 sophomores in Apollo Career Center¹s 11-member district will be visiting Apollo during 411Blast, Friday, Jan. 30. Parents of sophomore students interested in attending Apollo for the 2015-16 school year are also invited to attend.

This day is designed to expose students to career possibilities that they may not know about. Students choose two programs of interest and then spend one-half day visiting those labs, meeting the instructors and participating in fun, interactive demos and activities.

January 16,  - Raisin' Cane, 7:30 p.m. -  Starring the award-winning actress, singer and dancer Jasmine Guy, and the acclaimed Avery Sharpe Trio, Raisin' Cane celebrates and honors the legendary voices of the Harlem Renaissance through text, song, music, movement and imagery. Raisin' Cane was written and conceived by Harry Clark.

Kenton Toy Collectors Club will be holding the 3rd Annual Kenton Toy Collectors Cast Iron Toy Show, Feb. 21; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. , at the Hardin County Historical Museum 223 N. Main St., Kenton.

A great opportunity to buy, sell and trade with vendor space available for $25/5‘ table, vintage toys only please. Kenton Toy Collectors Club will be on site to appraise toys.

Free admission. For more info call  419-673-7147, www.kentontoycollectors.com, or
[email protected].

The Village of Ada utilizes the services of Central Collection Agency (CCA), Division of Taxation, for municipal income tax issues. If you have filed municipal taxes in years past, you are may be accustomed to receiving a tax package, including tax forms, from CCA each January. In the interest of reducing costs, CCA will no longer be mailing those forms directly to you. You may receive an informational postcard in the mail from CCA, explaining the change to you.

The Village/Water office now has copies of the 2014 tax forms available. We will also be providing the Ada Public Library with a limited number of forms.

The Ohio Northern University cheerleaders and their coaches are gearing up to share their cheer knowledge and skills with anyone in kindergarten through grade 12, at their cheer clinic from 12-2:15 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 at King-Horn Center. The clinic ends with a performance at halftime of the ONU versus Mount Union men's basketball game that afternoon.

Participants will learn proper motion and jump techniques, basic stunting and tumbling techniques, and a dance routine that will be performed at halftime of the game.

The Ada Academic and Music Boosters will co-sponsor a purse raffle during Valentine’s Day weekend. 

The fundraiser will support academic endeavors/activites and music programs at the Ada Schools. The fundraiser is at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Ada VFW. 

Tickets are $15 and include snacks and a chance at several door prizes. There are  designer purses, lia Sophia jewelry, 31 items  and other prizes totaling over $2,500.  

Raffle tickets can be purchased for those who will be unable to attend, which includes a chance to win a first prize of a Coach purse, second prize of a Coach wristlet, and a third prize of $25 in cash. 

Robert "Bob" L. Reichenbach, 84, died Jan. 19, 2015, at 7:15 a.m., at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born April 8, 1930, in Marion, Ohio, to the late William and Sibyl (Cooley) Reichenbach.  On Jan. 14, 1955, he married Carrol Goodwin Reichenbach who survives.

He was a life-long farmer and retired from Ex-Cell-O Corporation, Bluffton.  After retirement, he worked at his daughter and son-in-law's health food store, Health Check in Ada. He was an active member of Emmanuel United Church of Christ, Bluffton, and was assisted in the Bible Study group at Willow Ridge, Bluffton.

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