The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce has a busy year planned. Several events planned by the chamber and in conjunction with the chamber were announced at the August chamber meeting. Here’s what’s on the calendar in coming months:
Community meals
• First Wednesday of each month - Richland Manor lunch and Bingo at Community Health Professionals
• ReStore crock pot Tuesday – Every Tuesday at ReStore
• St. Mark’s Lutheran Church – Last Wednesday of the month
Harvest and Herb Festival
• Sept. 20 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Oct. 27 – Halloween parade, soup cook off and pie-baking contest. Chamber will sponsor the pie-baking contest at the Depot
Two Ada High School groups will perform at this year's Hardin County Fair. Performing are the Ada High School marching band and the Ada High School Varsity Singers.
The Marching Bulldogs will perform their 2014-15 competition show Tuesday. Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Grandstand of the fairgrounds. This year's competition theme is "Apocalypse" and the band is directed by Jonathan Lischak.
The Freed Center for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern Unversity will have a 24-hour sale on tickets for the 2014-15 season on Monday, Aug. 25. The event will run from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.
This is an opportunity to get great deals on amazing seats for the 2014-15 season. During the 24-hour sale, all tickets are $4 for headliners and $2 for in-house productions and 24-hour sale tickets are available by walk-in or phone only 419-772-1900.
The first program of the season is ONU Defying Gravity Production on Friday, Aug. 29, at Freed Center.
Mark Badertscher of the Hardin County Extension Office provided the Icon with the following announcement concerning water quality problems in Lake Erie and it's relationship to Hardin County.
The announcement follows:
As a result of the water quality problems in the western basin of Lake Erie, funding has been made available to Hardin County farmers who have land in the Lake Erie watershed.
This is basically land north of State Route 309. Funding is available through the Hardin SWCD/NRCS until Tuesday, Aug. 26. This funding is to plant cover crops, install blind inlets and drainage control structures.
The annual fall Ada community pep rally is set for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27, at Ada War Memorial Park. That announcement is among several concerning next week at Ada schools. The other announcements follow:
ATTENTION STUDENTS WHO DRIVE TO SCHOOL: Pick up a parking pass form for a parking tag. Forms are available in the HSO. Tags are free; a replacement tag will cost $1.
2 HR EARLY DISMSSAL: Students will be dismissed at 1:30 for Teacher-In-Service Tuesday, Aug. 26.
A fire destroyed the residences of Dean and Rita Nichelson and Donna Nichelson on Aug. 4. Both dwellings and all of their contents were a total loss.
An account has been set up at the Ada Office of the Liberty National Bank to accept financial donations for the Nichelson families for temporary housing and for the re-building and re-furnishing of their homes.
Checks can be made payable to the Nichelson Fire Fund and dropped off or mailed to: Liberty National Bank,
118 South Main Street,
Ada, Ohio 45810.
