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It's summer and, yes, lots of events take place in Ada. Here's the Community Highlights for June and July provided by the Ada Icon. An attachment at the bottom of this story offers these calendar listings in a printer-friendly format, for hanging on your refrigerator.

Community Events

• Ada Food Pantry (located in basement of First Presbyterian Church of Ada)
Tuesdays 4-6pm
Saturdays 10am - 12noon

• Free community meals
o Crock Pot Tuesdays, ReStore, 4-6pm Community Lunch Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 12-1pm
o Last Wednesday of the month, St. Markʼs Lutheran Church, 5-6:30pm

Outdoor movies in Ada! That's right. This summer

Three family-oriented outdoor movies will be shown this summer on the Ohio Northern Univesity tundra sponsored by The Freed Center for the Performing Arts and Bluffton Hospital.

The movies and dates are:

Friday, June 5 - Frozen
Friday, July 3 - Toy Story
Friday, Aug. 7 - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Movies are shown at dusk. Popcorn and beverages are avialable for purchase. Families are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy the movies under the stars.

In between nature's showers, flowers need a little drink. Of course, this photo was taken prior to the May 26 rain.

A senior dance will be held Wednesday, June 10, from 2-4 p.m. at the Restore Community Center, 210 N. Main St., Ada. Walter Miller will play your favorites.

AEP meteorologists anticipate severe thunderstorms containing damaging winds the Icon readership area later today. Here's AEP's announcement:

A cold front in Illinois will move into I&M Power just as an upper-level disturbance (now over Missouri) arrives. Ample sunshine & humidity will generate moderate instability by afternoon as temperatures reach the low-mid 80s.

Expect a broken line of severe storms to organize over Indiana midday...then cross eastern I&M Power (Ft. Wayne, Muncie) early this afternoon.

Ada varsity girls' softball team awards ceremony for the 2015 season was May 21. The following girls earned these awards:

In photo from left:

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