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PLRBARE - You'll expect a plate like this to show up sooner or later. The Icon spotted this on a Ford Explorer Sport in the city building parking lot.

It's the Village Garden

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Despite summer like temperatures, five strong and helpful young men from the Phi Mu Delta Fraternity on Ohio Northern's Campus arrived at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, to help winterize the Village Garden.

The garden wasn't quite through producing this year and as the ONU students pulled, cut and upended all the vegetation, they discovered lingering 'fruit on the vine'. "I've never seen a harvest go this long!" said Karen Ward, coordinator of the Garden.

If this continues the winterizing may have to be pushed back to November. The Village Garden is an offshoot project sponsored by The ReStore Center of Ada.

Estimated cost $1.1 million

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By Monty Siekerman
A portion of Willeke Avenue will have new water and sanitary sewer lines, the road will be improved, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks installed...but at a cost.

The work is estimated to cost about $1.1 million, and homeowners may be assessed for part of the cost, about $6,000 per lot.

The project will help with the street flooding during rains. The water and sewer lines are very old.

The area considered phase 1 extends from Ackerman to Orders, which is the east portion of Willeke. The remainder of the street will be phase 2, which is still in the planning stages.

2,000 visitors coming to Ada Music Booster's 40th annual Music Feast Show Choir Invitation

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By Monty Siekerman
Nearly 2,000 people – entertainers, spectators, and volunteers – are expected to walk through the doors of Ada Schools during the 40th annual Ada Music Feast Show Choir Invitational Competition on Saturday, Nov. 4.

The show choir competition is one of the longest-running exhibitions of its kind and each year draws some of the top high school singers/dancers in Ohio and Indiana.

Kiwanis Club Halloween parade categories: prettiest, scariest, most original

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By Monty Siekerman
The annual Halloween parade, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, will be held on Monday.

Ghosts, goblins, and all manner of creatures are invited to register at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot behind the city building, 115 W. Buckeye Ave.

The parade will begin about 6 p.m. and walk a short distance to the depot where costumes will be judged and trophies handed out.

Costume categories: prettiest, scariest, most original.

Age groups: preschool and kindergarten, grades 1-2, grades 3-4, grades 5-6, groups any age and pets, adults (most original only), Ada Band.

 

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No smoke, no fire.

The arrival of a fire truck interrupted Meri Skilliter's talk at the weekly Rotary Club lunch meeting at The Inn on Tuesday.

The school superintendent (seen at the far right chatting with other Rotarians) was speaking to the club about the renewal tax levy being put to voters to decide in November.

There was no fire, but a defective smoke alarm, which firemen replaced. Rotarians, employees, hotel guests, and other diners soon returned to The Inn and continued the day they had planned. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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