Ada Rotary and local businesses to raise funds with sweets
OCT 22 MEDIA RELEASE__The Ada Rotary Club will join Rotary clubs around the world in observing World Polio Day this Friday, October 24, by providing Purple Pinkie Donuts at several local businesses.
These donuts, topped with purple icing, symbolize the purple ink used to mark the pinkie fingers of children who have received the polio vaccine in third world countries.
Purple Pinkie Donuts will be available at the following Ada locations on Friday:
Two local entrepreneurs are establishing a grab-and-go food market at The Mezza at the Regal Beagle. Ang’s Amazing Graze and Circle U Waffle Co., which were established as catering and food truck services, are now joining forces in a brick-and-mortar shop at 105 N. Main Street, as well as with ticketed events at “The Beagle.”
On October 6 NBC's Today Show featured a story on Ada's Wilson Football factory at 517 E Highland Ave. Reporter Kaylee Hartung tries her hand at all the steps that go into making a football by hand--and learns how much skill and experience it takes to make NFL footballs to the factory's exacting standards.
The following eight land transfers took place in the Ada Exempted Village School District in September 2025 as reported on the websites of Hardin County, Ohio auditor Michael T. Bacon and Hancock County, Ohio auditor Charity Rauschenberg.
ADDRESS - SALE DATE - SALE PRICE - LAND USE - FROM / TO
Commercial
125 E Buckeye St – 9/19/2025 – $410,000 – Other Retail Structure – From S & R Group One More LLC to H & S Property Management
Mellow hair studio of Ada has moved to a larger location next to the Ada Post Office at 129 S. Main St. and has been joined by Ki Skin Studio waxing services and Beauty by Ky manicure and pedicure services.
Hair stylist Yessica Arriaga opened Mellow in December 2022 in a shared space at 402 S Main Street where her husband Blake Pfifer operates Crosby's Barbershop.
Arriaga's services include haircuts, styling, conditioning and hair color. A detailed list is provided HERE. Mellow has a new phone number, 567-800-5042.
