American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive on Monday, July 22, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Community Health Professionals (Ada Visiting Nurses) in the conference room.
Community Health Professionals is located at 1200 S. Main St.
If you donate blood to the Red Cross any time this month, you'll be enetered to win the prize of four tickets to Cedar Point, which includes travel, hotel, park admission and more. See redcrossblood.org/CedarFair for details.
Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center announced that Tom Lane, M. ED., AT, ATC, PTA, ITAT, will be awarded the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Athletic Trainer Service Award.
The Athletic Trainer Service Award recognizes National Athletic Trainers’ Association members for their contributions to the athletic training profession as a volunteer at the local and state levels. The Athletic Trainer Service award recipients have been involved in professional associations, community organizations, grassroots public relations efforts and service as a volunteer athletic trainer.
The Ada Rotary Club is taking reservations for its second annual picnic prior to the patriotic pops concert on Saturday.
The picnic is from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Saturday, July 6, at The Inn at ONU. Reservations are required for the dinner at $26 per person. Rotary members have tickets.
The regional summer tradition will continue when the Lima Symphony Orchestra celebrates Independence Day with its fifth annual Patriotic Pops Concert at 7 p.m. on July 6 at Ohio Northern University.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be held on the sculpture mall east of McIntosh Center, between Presser and Weber halls.
They are having way too much fun this summer during the Ada Public Library summer reading program. Just last week a parachute either landed or took off on the library grounds. It was part of a UFO exercise.
A chat with Vicki Mills, conducting a Summer Sounds Choral Camp, July 15-19, and directing Noteworthy Community Choir during the patriotic pops concert
By Barb Lockard
Let your voice be heard! Owner of Miss Vicki’s Music Studio, Vicki Mills, has also devoted herself to a non-profit venture, the Noteworthy Community Choir.
This summer, Mills is conducting Noteworthy’s first-ever Summer Sounds Choral Camp, July 15-19 at Ohio Northern University.
“I want kids to come to camp and sing their hearts out,” Mills said. “I want them to be able to move, create, and experience making music.”
Mary Ann Jordan, 83, died July 2, 2019, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Mary Ann was born Aug. 30, 1935 in Bluffton, Ohio, to the late Clarence and Geneva (Reichenbach) Fleming. On Sept. 17, 1956, she married Richard "Dick" H. Jordan who preceded her in death on March 8, 2019.
