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Here's an update on what's happening inside the Ada municipal building during its major renovation. Among photos in this series includes the elevator well and some three-level thick brick walls.

Ken Collins, Ada Icon photographer, took some photos for the Fourth of July parade in Kenton. He shares some of theme with Icon viewers.

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.

Tickets available for Ada Rotary Club's second annual picnic

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.

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