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Mustard Seed Cafe, 429 N. Main St., Bluffton, announced its Friday and Saturday dinner features.

In addition to Mustard Seed’s regular menu on Friday and Saturday nights, the following features will be available this weekend:

• Dinner:  Crepes with chicken, spinach & brie in artichoke crème, Chorizo and Shrimp Pasta
• Light Plate:  Eggplant Caponata on baguette with mozzarella
• Dessert:  Puff Pastry with sabayon custard and strawberries

Outdoor dining is available.  Beer, wine and specialty cocktails may be enjoyed indoors or out.  567-226-1120.

It started in 1913 and is still going strong today.

This weekend is the 101st annual Ada Farmers’ and Merchants’ Picnic. There’s lots of activities for all age groups and interest groups.

A PRINTABLE FLYER LIST ALL EVENTS IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

Events take place Friday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 9, in the War Memorial Park, Ada. For additional information about the event call 419-235-4231.

Here’s this year’s schedule:

Ada High School, as a Division VI football team, has moved from Region 20 to Region 22 in this year’s Ohio High School Athletic football playoff makeup.

The Bulldogs are one of 15 Ohio schools who have changed regions. The only other school close to Ada making a Division VI change is Riverdale, who also moved from Region 20 to 22.

Click here to see the entire list of all Division VI schools by region.

OPEN DIVISION VI MAP AT BOTTOM OF STORY.

Ada is surrounded by shredded wheat, but not the kind you eat for breakast. It just looks like that. According to Mark Badertscher of the Hardin County Extention Office, those are large round bales of wheat straw. They are used for livestock bedding. In some cases, straw is sold for use as a landscape mulch for highway projects or when seeding lawns. Other uses could be mulch for fruit and vegetable production or gardens. These bales are on State Route 81 northwest of Ada.

Michael Harnishfeger, Ada police chief, provided The Icon with the Ada police call logs covering July 14 to July 27. They are provided in the attachments at the bottom of this story.

It wasn’t your normal Bluffton July.

While the normal average July temperature is 72.8 degrees, this year’s average temperature was a cool 68.7 degrees.

July 2014 precipitation totaled 2.99 inches with the normal July average precipitation at 3.85 inches.

The high reading of the month was 88 on July 22 and the low was 48 on July 29. The accompanying chart lists the daily weather summaries, provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

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