That was the count when this photo was taken last week. Ada fire hydrants are getting this fall flushing this month. The village has approximately 200 hydrants. John Bowers, water plant operator, is on the left and Mike Steele in at the hydrant.
It’s time for the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale. This year’s sale takes place Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 13-14-15.
The Ada Icon will post all garage sales received during this, the biggest weekend of the garage sale season.
All garage sales are also posted on the Icon’s printer-friendly garage sale map. There is no charge to post a garage sale on the Icon and all sales are automatically posted on both Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon.
Send garage sales to: [email protected]. The Icon will respond to sends with a message line “thanks, got it.”
Russ Crawford, professor of history at Ohio Northern University, will present a course on World War II that is available virtually to the public at no charge.
Interested persons may email Crawford at [email protected]. He will send interested persons a link to join the class online.
Classes are Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and continue on Mondays through Nov. 9.
“The class focuses on the World Wars, from 1914 to 1945,” he said. “They are the axle around which the 20thcentury turned.”
Here's the August Ada school menu. The first day of classes is Monday, Aug. 24.
Meal prices:
• Breakfast Kindergarten to 12th: $1.25
Reduced: 30 cents
• Lunch prices:
K to 5: $2.15
6 to 12: $2.40
Reduced: 40 cents
Kindergarten students need 50 extra cents for an afternoon snack milk
Today starts classes for the 2020-21 academic year at Ohio Northern University. Here's a colorized post card photo showing a much earlier student body. We're not certain of the year, but based on student dress, it feels like circa 1910.
And, it appears that bow ties are never really out of fashion.
The wording at the bottom of the photo reads: "An acre of students on Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio."
This photo is from the collection of the Ada Public Library.
