Attention Ada tennis players - the courts are calling.
Thanks to a community effort by a tennis courts resurfacing fundraiser that started last fall the courts' upgrade is now complete.
The renovation project cost $66,075 and funding is also very close to being completed.
The costs included $55,125 for an asphalt overlay and acrylic resurfacer, plus $10,950 to remove and replace fence fabric with tension wire.
Funding includes:
$29,235 NatureWorks grant
$14,155 Local contributions
$10,000 United States Tennis Association grant
$10,000 United States Tennis Association grant
Several little stories, when combined, make a larger story, showing that business movement. Here’s some of the items mentioned at last week’s Ada Area Chamber of Commerce meeting relating to business in the community:
Jamie Hall, village administrator, announced that midnight swims at the Ada Pool are offered on Tuesdays.
He added that the Municipal Building will have a workable elevator soon and remodeling is continuing on the inside of the building.
Jodi Goodman, Midwest Rehab, said that Midwest recently hired an occupational therapy assistant.
Stop and check out the mural inside the Ada post office.
A set of U.S. postal service stamps this spring reminded several area historians, artists and stamp collectors of Ada's historic post office mural.
Ada’s mural “Country Dance,” an oil-on-canvas painting by Albert Kotin, was completed in 1940 and installed in the lobby of the post office constructed two years earlier. The mural extends nearly 12 feet across.
Postal service mural stamp series
On April 10 the postal service issued a 10-stamp series featuriing five post office murals created in the 1930s and 1940s.
This summer’s Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival has a new look with several new features.
Chris DiBiasio, chair of the event, updated the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce members during the chamber’s June meeting.
Here’s a summary of the festival so far:
The festival is Saturday, Aug. 24. It opens with the Wilson’s annual garage sale from 8 a.m. to noon.
In the morning is a scrimmage featuring Ada versus Perry at ONU’s Dial Robertson Stadium. Following that scrimmage, ONU will scrimmage Triune University of Angola, Ind.
The Ohio No-Till Council and OSU Extention will hold an information meet in Ada on Thursday for area farmers who have unplanted acres and need information about what to do with these fields, according to Mark Badertscher of the Hardin extension office.
The meeting is from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in McIntosh Center on the ONU campus.
Badertscher said that the meeting will address answers about crop insurance, weed control and cover crops.
Resource persons attending:
• Jeff Stachler, OSU Extension Auglaize County, will discuss weed control on prevented planting acres.
