Amanda Bennett, Director of the Ada Public Library, updated the Ada Kiwanis Club about this summer’s library reading program, which has concluded
She noted the following:
• 446 people signed up for summer reading program, which included:
• 57 babies - age 5
• 152 kindergarten - 5th grade
• 76 6th grade to 12th grade
• 161 adults
Also: 231 persons of all ages finished the program (roughly 51%)
The library held 73 programs over six weeks, with 1,787 attending the programs.
That’s one way to describe the 2014 wheat harvest in the Icon viewership area.
Larry Kaiser, manager Ada grain branch of Heritage Cooperative, provide the Icon with some of this year’s harvest figures.
Kaiser reports yields ranging from 65 to 90 bushels per acre, with an average of about 80 bushels per acre. Moisture content average was 15.2 percent mostly (13.5 percent is dry).
The first wheat arrived at the Ada elevator on July 5 and the harvest should be completed by the end of this week.
President Heather Cox called weekly meeting of the Ada Kiwanis Club to order at 12:00 noon on Tuesday July 15th at McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University, Ada.
