FROM BLUFFTON ICON - You'll find this antique doll at rest on an 1840s-era bed in the Swiss Community Historical Society's Schumacher homestead, 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton.
The homestead is open each Saturday in the summer from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is $5. The tour takes you back in time where you may see how Swiss settlers lived.
Click here for details on the homestead and the society.
Five members from Ada Boy Scout Troop 124 completed a 10-day high adventure canoe trip to Northern Tier Canoe Base in Ely, Minnesota.
Northern Tier is a canoe base owned by the BSA and is on the Boundary Waters between Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba. The five members attending were Isaac Spar, Dexter Woods III, Jacob Butterfield, and adult leaders Don Spar, and Tom Lehman.
Over the course of 10 days, eight spent on the water, the group canoed over
77 miles and portaged there canoes around 17 times, one portage being over a
mile. All food, clothing, and equipment for the eight days was carried in
the canoes and portaged over land.
The Patriotic Pops Concert, featuring the Lima Symphony Concert, at Ohio Northern University at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, will be moved indoors, to the ONU King-Horn Field House, due to the threat of thunderstorms.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and bring lawn chairs, blankets and favorite picnic foods. This fun-filled family event will feature patriotic music, selections from musicals and other stage and film productions, popular tunes and a tribute to our armed forces.
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.
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.
