Ada Kiwanis Club invites Icon viewers to join this year's Halloween parade. It is Monday, Oct. 28
Line-up is beind the municipal building on Buckeye Street. Registration is at 5:30 p.m. and the parade is at 6 p.m.
Costume categories follow:
• Prettiest
• Scariest
• Most original
Costume judging by age groups:
• Pre-school and Kindergarten
• 1st and 2nd grades
• 3rd and 4th grades
• 5th and 6th grades
• Groups any age and pets
• Adults (most original only)
• Ada HS band
Judging takes place at the Ada Depot, where the parade concludes.
The Ada Rotary will host a Family Fun Ride from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 26, on the Rotary Riverwalk/Ottawa River Bikeway in Lima, according to Laurie Laird of the club.
“The ride will be a fun, family-friendly bicycle ride that will help us raise awareness of and funding for M.E.S.A.,” she said. “It will begin and end at the Ottawa Metro Park off of State Route 81.”
M.E.S.A. stands for Medical Equipment Supplies Abroad and is a service project for the Rotary District 6600, which Ada’s club is a part of.
Ada elementary presents “A Night in the Fairy Tale Forest” later this month. The deadline to reserve admission to the event is this week. The event is from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 21, in the school cafeteria.
A flyer at the bottom of this story provides rsvp details.
Here’s what the evening involves:
Parents and student guardians will join classroom teachers in their rooms to learn about “A Day in the Life” of elementary students and the grade level expectations for this school year.
Members of the school administrative team will attend a third grade meeting to talk about the third grade reading guarantee.
The Ada School District is sponsoring a Veterans’ Day breakfast on Monday, Nov. 11, at 8 a.m. in the school cafeteria.
"The school invites all veterans and their families as well as active duty service personnel who live, work or
worship within the boundaries of the Ada Exempted Village Schools to honor us with their presence on this day,” said David Lusk, Ada teacher.
If you would like to attend the breakfast, call the Ada High School Office at 419-634-2746 to make your reservation. The speaker for the morning is Wynn Hauenstein.
Order a meal at El Campo and you will help the United Way of Hardin County.
Enrique Cabrera, manager of El Campo Mexican Restaurant, Ada, is ready to welcome patrons for the first “All Out “for this year’s campaign for United Way of Hardin County on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
The restaurant, open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., will donate a percentage of it sales that day to United Way.
"United Way of Hardin County is very appreciative of the support of restaurants who sponsor these events to kickoff the annual campaign," said Phyllis Griffith of the United Way.
She added that monies go to 21 local agencies who offer support throughout the county.
