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Jamie Hall will lead Community Improvement Corp. in 2017

CIC is economic development arm of the village
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 23, 2017

Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) has its sights set on 2017. CIC reorganized for the year on Jan. 18.

Officers and board members elected for 2017 are:
Jamie Hall, president
Brandt Miller, vice president
Eileen Peterman, secretary
Angela Polachek, treasurer

Miller and Peterman filled two board vacancies, with terms from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2018. Peterman’s term had expired and Dick Lawrence announced in December his retirement from the board.

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NATS FAN

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 23, 2017

Here's a Hardin County original. You'll see it around Ada on a cream-colored Cooper S. This driver must be a Washington Nationals baseball fan, or we've read this completely incorrectly.

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You'd think there's a football festival coming to town soon

And, you are correct - it's Saturday, Feb. 4
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 20, 2017

Amy Eddings, cochair of the "Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival," stands by a Festival banner that hangs at Easter House Bed and Breakfast, 508 N. Main.

She and ONU First Lady Chris Burns DiBiasio head up the committee organizing the first-ever festival celebrating Ada as the Football-Making Capital of the World.

The banner was donated by Comstor Outdoor, one of several local businesses that are sponsoring the event.

The inaugural Ada football drop is set for Saturday, Feb. 4, the day before the Super Bowl.

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Here's Melissa Eddings Mancuso's Wilson Football Fest' poster

You can own one - now on sale in Ada
Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, January 19, 2017

Melissa Eddings Mancuso, an ONU associate professor art, designed and printed a poster for the inaugural "Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival" to be held on Saturday, Feb. 4, the day before the Super Bowl.

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. Proceeds will benefit the festival. 

Since this is the first-ever football festival in Ada and because the poster was designed by an award-winning artist, the posters are likely to become collector items.

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Freed Center brings the world's stage to Ada

Not to mention quality performances by ONU's Department of Theatre Arts
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Where else, but in Ada…

could you attend the ultimate Michael Jackson experience, Ben Vereen’s homage to Frank Sinatra, Broadway’s Next H!t Musical, plus ONU student productions of The Pirates of Penzance, an International Play Festival and a host of other acts?

The answer: The Freed Center for the Performing Arts on the Ohio Northern University campus. You could say that the Center brings the world's stage to Ada.

On Wednesday morning, Rosanna Scott, Marketing and Communications Specialist of The Center, shared with Ada Area Chamber of Commerce members some of the upcoming shows and talked about The Center’s impact on Ada.

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Here's an ODOT update on expenses this winter in clearing roads

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 17, 2017

The Ohio Department of Transportation Distrtict 1 has used 1,287 tons of salt on Hardin County roads this winter, according to its initial 2016-17 winter expense report.

In addition, in Hardin County, ODOT vehicles have registered 17,441 miles, used 19,120 gallons of deicing liquids, for total labor, equipment and material costs of $222,957.

The chart attached reveals information in each of the counties covered by District 1.

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