The Village of Ada council met for a regular meeting on Tuesday, June 21. All council members were present and Mayor Dave Retterer conducted the meeting.
The meeting began with approval of the minutes of the June 14 meeting and review and paying of bills, which can be found HERE on the village website.
MAYOR'S COMMENTS
The mayor gave the floor to Jeff Oestrich for a quick public service announcement about the June 26 Butterflies and Blooms garden tour in Ada and Kenton.
Tyler Justin Kiracofe, age 22, of Bluffton, passed away on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at his home, surrounded by his family.
Tyler was born on May 22, 2000, to Justin A. and Danyelle S. (Holbrook) Kiracofe of Bluffton, Ohio. He lived at home with both parents and his younger brother, Travis Kiracofe.
He is preceded in death by his grandmother, Diann Holbrook; and his paternal grandparents: Jerry and Judy Kiracofe.
The Keep Hardin County Beautiful Commission will be hosting a garden tour in the Kenton and Ada area on June 26, 2022 from 1:00-5:00 p.m.
The “Blossoms and Butterflies” tour will be a relaxing stroll through nine beautiful gardens. The invitation reads: "We hope that you take this opportunity to experience the joys and rewards of gardening. A Master Gardener will be present at each garden to answer your gardening questions."
Tickets are available for $10 each and may be purchased at The Keep Hardin County Beautiful office, 1 Courthouse Sq # 140, Kenton. Call (419) 674-2216 for more information.
Volunteerism! Most of, if not all non-profits depend on the volunteers to further their mission. Without volunteers the Boy Scouts of America would not be able to serve millions of youth nationwide over the past 120 years with the leadership, character, citizenship and fitness training that makes youth prepared for life and the leaders of tomorrow.
By Mark Badertscher
Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, Hardin County Extension
HARDIN COUNTY–For the period of May 1-May 31, Extension rainfall reporters recorded an average of 5.41 inches of rain in Hardin County. Last year, the average rainfall for the same time was 4.08 inches. Rainfall for May was 1.38 inches more than the ten-year average rainfall for the month.
The 2nd Annual Pride of Ada Fireworks show will begin at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, 2022 at the Ada baseball fields at the eastern end of Ada War Memorial Park.
Fireworks are particularly expensive this year, but local enthusiasm wasn't diminished, according to coordinator Ann Donnelly Hamilton. "We asked business after business to consider giving 'any amount' and we would just keep going until it was covered," she told the Icon.
Father’s Day shouldn’t pass without a mention in the Icons. I’m sorry to say that Mother’s Day 2022 passed without note on our Bluffton site, while Ada received a shopping countdown. Indeed, gifts and meals are often how we lavish love on family members. In my own family, Mother’s Day has been squeezed in between countless soccer tournaments and graduations, while Father’s Day in June seems a bit more leisurely.
Welcome to the new Old West and a colorful cowboy and sometime deputy.
Life in Toussaint, Montana is all but disappeared. The Me'tis Indian people cling to their old ways while outsiders move into the area by the Wolf Mountains and bring their own problems to the town of five hundred survivors in this modern world.
The Ada boys summer swim team defeated visiting Wapakoneta on a hot and hazy Thursday night, June 16, in West Ohio Aquatic League action at the municipal pool.
The Alligator boys dunked Wapak, 209-134.
But the Waves won the girls meet 216-103, and the visitors captured the overall combined boys-girls competition by a 350-312 score.
Olivia Aggozino (9-10 age bracket) paced the Ada girls with four individual race wins. Lily Baumgartner (15-18) won two races, as did Carly Hull (6 and under).
