The Area Agency on Aging 3 will host an event to promote Falls Prevention Awareness Day on Monday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to noon. at the Area Agency on Aging 3, 2423 Allentown Road, Lima, next to Tom Ahl and across from Walmart.
Several community partners, including two Ada and one Bluffton organizations, will participate to educate, increase awareness, and help provide resources on falls and fall prevention for our older adults.
• Ohio Northern will set up its mobile clinic bus, conducting bone density screenings for osteopenia/osteoporosis.
• Community Health Professionals and Adaptive Medical Marketing will offer information and assistance.
Mayor David Retterer announced that Ada's village trick-or-treat night will be from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31.
The Ada Kiwanis Club Halloween parade is Monday, Oct. 28. Watch the Icon for more details on the parade coming soon. Here's a photo from last year's Halloween parade.
The Ada Historical Society will hold its regular monthly (September) meeting on Monday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room at the Ada Public Library, 320 N. Main Street, Ada.
The Bluffton community’s 16th annual Fall Festival, with many family-oriented activities, takes place throughout the community on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
New this year, Bluffton Family Recreation will host a “Kickoff Event” on Friday, Sept. 27, beginning at 5 p.m.
The Ohio Northern University Department of English and Polaris Literary Magazine hosts an evening Dan Rzicznek, Ohio poet, on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The event is in the Wilson Art Center Elzay Gallery. A catered reception at 6:30 p.m. and followed by a question-answer session and poetry reading at 7 p.m.
Rzicznek’s collections of poetry are Settlers, (forthcoming from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press), Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press), as well as four chapbooks, most recently Live Feeds (Epiphany Editions).
