A garden in Ada this summer puts on a one-of-a-kind show this month. It’s in the historic Ada railroad depot park on Main Street.
Despite that it lacks silver bells, cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row, the blooms are inspiring. You'll find daylillies, rudbeckia, hydrangea, vinca, blue-eyed Mary, coneflowers, celosia, a red hibiscus and several unidentified beauties.
The blooms add to the attraction of picnic tables, restored Pennsylvania Railroad caboose, Civil War cannon and a restored passenger station.
Attached are 13 of the sample blooms you will see. (Thanks to Monty Siekerman for many of the flower idenifications)
The Hardin County Astronomy Club will have meteor and star gazing for the Perseid meteor shower on Saturday, Aug. 10, from 9:30 p.m. to midnight at the McGuffey village park on East South Street in McGuffey, according to David Humphreys of the club.
If cloudy or raining, the club will try again on Sunday, Aug. 11, at the same time.
There will be a couple of telescopes there for viewing the planets and other astronomical objects, and visitors are welcome to bring their own telescopes and binoculars.
Ada voters will have some local decisions to make on the Tuesday, Nov. 5, general election ballot.
Four candidates are on the ballot for two Ada village council seats in November. The top two vote-getters will each begin a four-year council term on Jan. 1, 2020.
Council candidates
• Cathy Cole –
Independent, 301 S. Johnson St., incumbent
• Shelia Coressel –
Democrat, 421 E. Lima Ave.
• Ken Lauria –
Democrat, incumbent, appointed December 2018 to fill Beth Fenton vacancy,
301 S. Johnson St.
• Linda Mason –
Republican, 325 Grandview Boulevard
Ohio farmers in 40 Ohio counties may seek potential relief from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) following the USDA Secretarial disaster designation in their counties or contiguous counties due to rain, flooding, or other weather conditions.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in letters dated July 25, 2019, designated several counties as primary natural disaster areas due to production losses caused by extreme weather events that occurred during the 2019 crop year.
Story update on Aug. 1 - Kindergarten orientation will be Monday, Aug. 19, at 5-5:30 and 6-6:30 p.m. Parents will receive a letter in the mail soon with their orientation time and their student's start date. Parents should bring supplies when they come to orientation.
When you remove July from the calendar you'll see that school is 21 days away and counting. Ada schools provided the Icon with lots of back-to-school details that follow;
• Ada Exempted Village School Open House is Monday, Aug. 19, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
• The first day of school is Wednesday, Aug. 21, with a full day planned for grades 1-12.
