Vehicle registration for this 53rd annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels is underway according to Dan Diller, festival director.
The show is sponsored by the Bluffton Lions Club.
This year’s festival is Friday, June 19, in downtown Bluffton. Registration is from 2 to 5 p.m. rain or shine. Vehicle judging is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Trophies will be awarded at 7:30 p.m.
The show is open to antique cars, classic cars, trucks, tractors, golf carts, fire engines, motorcycles and Cushmans.
Registration fees by May 31 are $10 per vehicle. Registration thereafter is $12.
Following Governor DeWine’s strong recommendation to limit large, mass, indoor events in order to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Ada Exempted Village School District will be making decisions to proceed, cancel, or postpone approaching events based on Social Distancing Protocol and the best information available at the time.
As such, Superintendent Meri Skilliter has made the following decisions about approaching events.
Several significant village-related expenditures were approved by Ada council on Feb. 25.
Among these include the purchase of a Bobcat compact excavator at a cost of $53,077.
The excavator is in the current village budget and will be used by the public works department for work on streets, water distribution and sanitary and storm collection systems. The purchase is from Bobcat of Lima.
Village officials priced seven machines and visited four dealerships prior to making its selection.
By Barbara Lockard
In 2015, Dusty Donley decided to make a giant career leap. The 1996 Ada High School graduate began the process that would take him from the typically male world of the local hardware store, to teaching 7-year-old girls how to add, subtract and not irritate each other!
Donley worked at Keith’s Hardware Store, Ada, while earning a bachelor’s degree in communication from Ohio Northern University. He wanted to stay in the area, so when the store offered him the manager’s position after his graduation in 2000, he accepted.
“That position lasted more than 20 years,” he said.
Ohio Northern University has created a taskforce to address issues around the COVID-19 crisis that could impact the on-going operations of the university, according to Amy Prigge, executive director of the office of communications and marketing.
The taskforce is meeting and planning for the unlikely event of a local outbreak of COVID-19. The taskforce includes several members of the president’s cabinet, and leaders of operational units across campus.
ONU has also created a website for information and updates for the campus community concerning COVID-19 and campus safety,
Dear Ada Community:
On March 17, 2020, the Ada School District is seeking a renewal of a .75% income tax levy for a continuing period of time. This is NOT new tax, but a renewal, which means NO new monies. The monies generated from this levy will be used for general operating expenses.
A spring local vendor pop up shop features 12 vendors from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 14, at The Centre of Bluffton, according to Cindy Luginbuhl, one of the event planners.
Featured vendors include:
• Rodan+Fields
• Color Street
• LuLaRoe
• Thirty One
• Tupperware
• Plunder
• DoTerra
• Younique
• Tastefully Simple
• Scentsy
• Norwex
• Pampered Chef
The event is open to the public and includes special offers from vendors and door prizes.
A $21 million project beginning this month will resurface Interstate 75 between Napoleon Road just south of the village of Beaverdam and state Route 235 three miles north of the village of Bluffton in Allen and Hancock counties.
The project also includes the reconstruction of Interstate 75 at state Route 696 in Beaverdam. Traffic will be maintained through the work zone. Work is expected to begin in March 2020 and is anticipated to complete in October 2020.
The resurfacing project between Napoleon Road and state Route 235 includes repairs on the bridge over township Road 33 and the railroad just north of the village of Bluffton.
The Village of Ada is hiring for work at the Ada pool this summer. Applications are being accepted for:
• Pool manager
• Assistant pool manager
• Red Cross certified lifeguards
• Cashiers
The pool is open to the public from May 23 to Aug. 22. Hours needed are Mondays through Fridays 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; potentially 10 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays noon to 8 p.m.; potentially 10 p.m.
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Ohio State Highway Patrol held an event today to announce the establishment of a distracted driving safety corridor on Interstate 75 in Allen and Hancock counties.
The event was held at the southbound rest area on I-75, south of Findlay.
A section of I-75 from south of the village of Beaverdam in Allen County, to the rest areas in Hancock County, south of the city of Findlay, is being designated as a distracted driving safety corridor by a series of signs which warn of the dangers of driving distracted. The signs are currently being installed in both the northbound and southbound directions.
