Regional news

Here are several news items pertaining to Ada schools, from the Ada school website:

Interim reports
The end of the first quarter interim is Friday, Sept. 19. Interim reports will be sent home with students on Friday, Sept. 26. Parents are also encouraged to monitor their student's progress through ProgressBook. Should you need help with your access, please contact the school office.

Elementary permissions
Mobile Dentist permission forms are due Friday, Oct. 10.

Community Health Professionals will hold a free "lunch and learn," in October.

The program titled "Ask the Pharmacist," will be held from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, at Community Health Professionals, 1200 S. Main St., Ada.

Ask the Pharmacist is presented by P&R Home IV and P&R Medical Connection. Sponsored by Liberty National Bank of Ada, participants will receive a box lunch from Northern on Main.

There is no cost to attend. Donations are welcome and will be put towards the hospice patient care fund. Please RSVP by Oct. 13 to 419-634-7443.

Twenty years ago, when Ken Blanchard worked at Ford’s Lima plant, he read that one in five Americans read at a third or fourth grade level and another 20 percent at an eighth grade level.

Blanchard didn’t believe it at first — until he stopped to think about co-workers and others he knew who couldn’t read.  So, after retiring from Ford, Blanchard accepted the position as Executive Director of the Literacy Council in Lima, whose mission is to teach adults to read.

It’s a downtown festival in Ada on Saturday.

It’s the 29th anniversary Ada Area Chamber of Commerce Harvest and Herb Festival. Over 175 booths with offer items for sale, stretching from Quest Federal Credit Union on the north to the Disciples of Christ Church on the South.

- AN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY LISTS ALL BOOTHS AND THEIR LOCATIONS -

Here’s what’s in store during the day:
• 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. booth display open
• 10 a.m. Main Street parade

Ada's Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) will hold its monthly meeting at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 17, according to Angela Polachek, of the Village of Ada.

The meeting is at noon in the Dean's Heritage Room of McIntosh Center on the ONU campus.

Attachments to this story include the agenda, treasurer's report and minutes from the most recent meeting (minutes not yet approved).

Apollo Career Center's Garden Cafe will open for business Tuesday, September 23, and will serve lunch from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The all-you-can-eat buffet is $6 and includes a salad and hot bar with an assortment of desserts, and choice of beverage. The restaurant is student-run and designed to be a teaching lab as well as a restaurant. For reservations call 419.998.2945.

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