Don Dunahue, the Hardin County Veterans Service Officer will present "Veterans Benefits - What you really need to know" on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. at the Community Health Professionals Building, Ada.
The event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Dunahue will discuss the various benefits that are available to veterans or their surviving spouse and the process for receiving these benefits. There will be a special focus on benefits available for home health and assisted living.
The event is offered jointly by Community Health Professionals of Ada and Blanchard House in Kenton, Ohio.
The Chinese New Year, one of the most important of Chinese holidays, officially begins Feb. 10 but it's being ushered in early at the Ada Public Library.
On Monday, Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. the Ada Public Library will host the ONU Asian American Student Union as they present "The Red Dragon", a performance for grades K through 5 and open to all. The performers will explain about the tradition and it's significance.
Children will receive a traditional Chinese New Year gift. Activities will include origami and Korean calligraphy.
Apollo Career Center will hold its first-everl Apollopalooza on Jan. 29, 5:30-7 p.m., to kick-off National Career and Technical Education Month, which runs through February.
Apollopalooza will showcase both the high school and adult education programs. The event is free and open to the public.
“Because Apollo is not a traditional high school or college, and because adults and high school students are being trained during the day and evening, Apollo is opening up the building, for the public to see and experience what Apollo students learn everyday,” said Dana Dukes Norton, community relations liaison.
The Van Wert Civic Theatre is presenting the Tony Award winning musical Big River, a country and bluegrass musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
The show is directed by Jerry Zimmerman and features Ada dramatist Nancy Williams Shuffle in the role of Mary Jane Wilkes.
The musical won numerous Tony awards, including for both music and score.
Big River is running Thursday through Saturday on the following dates:
Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 2, 3 and Feb. 7, 8, 9.
The Thursday through Saturday shows are at 8 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m.
There's still time to sign up for spring soccer, but hurry. The final sign-up is from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Restore Community Center, 210 N. Main St.
If you child has not previously planned with the Ada Soccer organization please bring a birth certificate with you.
