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The Inn at ONU, Ada, will hold an around the world wine sampling from 5 to 7:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 28.

The evening includes a variety of appetizers and desserts and wine commentary by Sommelier Kevin Boehm. There will also be musical entertainment. Wine is available for purchase during the evening. 

Admission is $32 per person and that includes five wine samples from a selection of eight wines unique to the Inn.

The event is designed to meet proper safety and social distancing guidelines. Mask are required exept during dining.

If you watch the nighttime sky, this weekend will be worthwhile. Click here for more details from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL).

Suter's Produce, Pandora, has its traditional red wagon at 302 Carryout, Ada, with daily sweet corn, peaches, tomatoes and melons. Arrive early in the day. By noon the wagon begins to empty.

Pharmacy gardening outreach project with people living with dementia

An innovative community outreach project by students and faculty members in the Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy was recently featured in a professional publication.

 “Remembering Your Roots: The Role of Horticulture Therapy in People Living with Dementia” was published in a recent edition of the “Ohio Journal of Public Health.”

The outreach endeavor, which captures the essence of service learning, involves gardening and realizing its impact on challenging dementia-related behaviors with residents of Vancrest of Ada health care center. 

$10 for the popular discount card that lasts for 12 months

Ada Music Boosters say that the Bulldog card in your wallet or purse will expire soon. 

The new card, covering the 2020-21 school year is now available from any high school marching band member or Varsity Singers member. Cards are $10 each and are good though Aug. 31, 2021. 

According to the boosters, “These discount cards typically pay for themselves after using them just three or four times, and the discounts last for the next 12 months. 

The card offers specials from 27 area businesses including the following Ada businesses:

Little Riley Creek Farm's barn decorated with four varieties of this onion cousin

FROM BLUFFTON ICON - With large clumps of garlic hanging from its rafters and others lined up on a wooden rack, the barn on the Little Riley Creek Farm is suggestive of an old European farmhouse kitchen decorated with garlic braids. 

Amanda Wischmeyer, who with her husband, Jon Tuttle, owns the farm, said that they grow four different varieties of garlic: French Violet, Italian Lorz, Chesnok Red and a variety that was growing on the farm when they purchased it. 

The farm is located at 9255 Lugabill Road, Bluffton. It is a 40-acres organic farm. Click here for its Facebook.

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