By Darlene Bowers
Skirting the fleece, drop spindle, Turkish spindle, roving, drum carder, setting the twist, bobbin fleece, barber pole, alpaca, angora, cradle picker, spin the cloud, natural dyes--is your mind spinning yet? If so, just ask Elena (Monaco) Dearth of Ada to explain any of these terms to you, and she will weave you into her world of woolen fibers.
Elena, a native of the Adirondacks near Lake Placid in New York, will also weave a tale for you of the day she met Def Leppard as a teenager while working as a horseback riding tour instructor.
Chad Hays holds the Ada Lions Club OSU ticket raffle sign on display in the Hay Insurance doorway. Raffle tickets are on sale from any Ada Lions for a number of impressive prizes including two tickets to the OSU vs. Rutgers football game plus a one night hotel stay. The drawing is Oct. 8.
Interested in star gazing? Ohio Northern University's Observatory will hold a star party celebrating galaxies -- in particular, The Andromeda Galaxy -- on Friday, Sept 19 between 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
According to Dr. John Pinkney, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. (It's "only" 2 million light years away!) The Astronomy Club will be present to point out this galaxy in the sky. The Andromeda Galaxy is just visible to the naked eye on a dark night, if you strain. Follow that up with views through binoculars and telescopes for the full Andromeda experience.
Twenty years ago, when Ken Blanchard worked at Ford’s Lima plant, he read that one in five Americans read at a third or fourth grade level and another 20 percent at an eighth grade level.
Blanchard didn’t believe it at first — until he stopped to think about co-workers and others he knew who couldn’t read. So, after retiring from Ford, Blanchard accepted the position as Executive Director of the Literacy Council in Lima, whose mission is to teach adults to read.
If the Ada Flea Market doesn't have it, it doesn't exist. The Main Street Ada business even offers fresh vegetables and fruit. Here's some of last week's sidewalk specials. Gus Guthrie owns the Flea Market.
