Ada’s Area Chamber of Commerce wants Ada residents to catch the holiday spirit.
From 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 5, there are plenty of opportunities to start thinking Christmas as Merry on Main launches the season in Ada.
Here’s the schedule:
• View the Christmas lights at the Depot park
• Visit Santa and his Reindeers at the Ada Public Library
• Listen to Chris Grey and friends singing carols up and down Main Street
• Then, stop by the Depot and pick up a ballot to vote for your favorite decorated downtown window. Drop off your ballot at the Depot anytime between 5 and 6:50 p.m.
A memorial service and celebration of life of Catherine "Kitty" Freed will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, Dec. 17, in English Chapel. She died at her home on Nov. 25. Mrs. Freed served as First Lady at Ohio Northern from 1979 to 1999 when her husband, DeBow, was university president.
There will be a display of mementos and a video of her life of service at 10 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. in English Chapel.
A video of the Freed years at Ohio Northern will be shown at 10:20 a.m.
Following the 11 a.m. service, a buffet lunch will be served in McIntosh Center. The videos of her life of service and the Freed years at ONU also will be shown during the lunch.
When do ONU students head home for Christmas break?
The colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy and Business Administration wrap up the semester with Dec. 16 as the last day of finals. Classes resume on Jan. 17, a month's break.
The College of Law works on a different academic calendar. The last day of finals for them is Dec. 9. Law classes for spring semester will begin on Jan. 5.
ONU has been on the semester system the past few years. For many years, the local university operated on the quarter system. In fact, it is said that Ohio Northern was the first university to be on the quarter system.
Ada’s Area Chamber of Commerce wants Ada residents to catch the holiday spirit.
From 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 5, there are plenty of opportunities to start thinking Christmas as Merry on Main launches the season in Ada.
Here’s the schedule:
• View the Christmas lights at the Depot park
• Visit Santa and his Reindeers at the Ada Public Library
• Listen to Chris Grey and friends singing carols up and down Main Street
• Then, stop by the Depot and pick up a ballot to vote for your favorite decorated downtown window. Drop off your ballot at the Depot anytime between 5 and 6:50 p.m.
The weather has been unusually warm for November in Ohio, but if you have lived in Ohio for more than one November, you know the weather is full of surprises. With the warmer weather, and lack of multiple hard frosts, the trees have held on tightly to their leaves this fall.
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The village normally concludes loose leaf pick up service during the last week of November/first week of December. This year, however, the village has decided to extend loose leaf pick up service through Dec. 9.
