Amanda Bennett, Ada Public Library director, provided the Icon with impressive statistics 2016 as she recently worked on the library's annual State Report.
Consider the following:
• 79 Family Storytimes with 1,064 in attendance
• 119 Kids Programs (Birth-5th Grades) with 3,779 in attendance
• 108 Teen (6th-12th Grades) Programs with 714 in attendance
• 108 Adult Programs with 1,199 in attendance
• 46 School Visits with 2,425 in attendance
• 5 Preschool Visits with 97 in attendance
• 32,947 Patron Visits to the Library
• 524 Participants in the Summer Reading Program.
Not finding a groundhog in Ada on Feb. 2, this photographer resorted to taking a photo similar to the one from last year...Abby checking out the daffodils popping through the ground at the Railroad Park.
The growth of the daffodils compares favorably to last year's; however, the maturity of the golden retriever pup is significant.
Abby was 4 months old a year ago, now 16 months. And, yes, Abby saw her shadow on a bright, sunny Thursday morning as did wild groundhogs here as well as Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania.
The Ada Icon and Carol Slane Florist have a Valentine's Day give-away and you might win.
We're giving away one dozen roses from Carol Slane Florist, 410 S. Main St., Ada.
It's really simple to enter:
• Send an email to: [email protected]
• In the message line type: Contest Entry
(Please add your name the e-mail message)
• Entry deadline 5:55 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.
We will draw the winner at 6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12, in time for you to pick up your dozen roses for Valentine's Day.
Her ticket was picked as the grand prize of the Made In Ada Wilson Football Festival on Saturday evening. She won an Ada-made Wilson LI Super Bowl football and a Yeti Cooler valued at $400.
She's here with her husband, Howard. He is a professor of law, and she is a member of the Ada village council. (Monty Siekerman photo)
Melissa Eddings Mancuso, an ONU associate professor art, designed and printed a poster for the inaugural "Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival.
Melissa estimated she spent 60 hours designing and printing the 8-color poster which is a little more than a foot wide and a foot and a half high.
The silkscreen poster is for sale at $30 each by calling 418-558-1071 or at the Gallery for the Arts, Ada.
Proceeds will benefit the festival.Watch how the official commemorative poster for the #MadeInAda Wilson Football Festival was made, color layer by color layer
The receiver's head doesn't appear until the gray and gold layers near the end....take a look.
