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The Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance is now accepting nominations for the 2014 Citizen of the Year, Business of the Year, and Community Service AwardS.

A NOMINATION FORM IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

 

Anyone from Hardin County may be nominated to receive these honors.  A panel of judges from Alliance members will make the final decision. The recipients will be revealed Thursday, Feb. 26, during the Alliance’s annual meeting held at Ohio Northern University’s McIntosh Center.

Want to see some neat doorways in Ada?

Check out the classroom doors at the Ada Elementary. Click here for the Ada Bulldogs facebook to view all the photos.

The results are in for the first Elementary Door Decorating Contest. As voted upon by the judges on Friday, the winners are:

3rd place: Mrs. Zellers' class (2nd grade)
2nd place: Mrs. Whitsel's class (3rd grade)
1st place: Mrs. Ludwig's class (1st grade)
People's Choice (Facebook): Mrs. Etgen's class (1st grade)

There were over 3,500 views on these pictures on the Ada Bulldog Facebook page. 

Members of the Kenton Knights of Columbus donated eight cases of winter coats to the ReStore Community Center, Ada, on Dec. 17.

Pictured from left, Paul Kleinfelter, ReStore Assistant Director Robert Kanzig, ReStore Director Dana Walters and Christopher Spiese. In all, 120 coats were donated.

Liberty National Bank wants to know which pet picture Ada residents think is their favorite holiday pet photo.

Ada Icon viewers can help in the contest. Here's how it works. Anyone may vote for a favorite holiday pet photo. All photos are posted on the bank's Facebook page.

The pet that receives the most votes/likes by noon on Christmas Eve, will enable its owner to decide which local charity will receive a $500 donation from Liberty National Bank. 

Deb Curlis of Community Health Professionals will continue as president of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce in 2015.

The chamber held election of officers and board members on Wednesday. Those elected included:

• Deb Curlis, president
• David Dellifield, vice president
• Corsi Arn, secretary

Board of directors whose terms expire Dec. 31, 2015
• Linda Armstrong
• Darla Crownhart

Board of directors whose terms expire Dec. 31, 2017
• Jill Simmons
• Jamie Hall
• Annetta Shirk (member of the Hardin Chamber)

With temperatures in the 50, the weather this week may not put people in the Christmas spirit, but we’ll take it.

Here’s the daily weather high and low temperatures for the first 15 days of the month with snowfall (none) and precipitation (scan), provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

The information is in the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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