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For Ada postal patrons wanting to know holiday dates for domestic mail deadlines and foreign mail, The Icon provides the following charts to assist in your planning.

Two charts, which are printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story, show dates so that you may get your packages and cards delivered on time.

Or, you may click here to open the U.S. Postal website, which lists all the deadlines.

Leaf pick up in Ada is coming to a close this fall. Here is the current schedule:

Thursday, Dec. 5
Southwest Leaf Pickup - from 12 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5,  until 12 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6

Southwest Leaf Pickup - from 12 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, until 12 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6
 

There’s a kids’ Christmas shopping spree at ReStore Community Center, 210 N. Main St., on Saturday, Dec. 7, according to LeAnn Pryor, executive director.

From 10 a.m. to noon youth receive one ticket per family member: each ticket is good for one free gift. And, Santa will be at ReStore during the shopping spree.

Several other events are happening this month.

December is a busy month at the Ada schools. Here's a sampling of events from today's Ada school website.

DATES TO REMEMBER:
December 6 – Interim Reports sent home with all students
December 9 – Fall Sports Awards – 7 p.m. in K-12 Gym
December 17 – Geography Bee – 9:20 a.m. in Auditorium
December 18 and 19 – First Semester Exams
December 23 through January 5 – Holiday Break
January 6 – School classes resume

RSVP for Christmas Luncheon
The Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance will be hosting it’s Christmas Luncheon at 11:30am on December 12 at the Hardin County Armory, 128 N. Main St., Kenton. The lunch will be catered by the Plaza Inn Catering. The cost is $14 per person. Entertainment will be provided by Kenton Middle School’s Dimensions show choir. A Chinese Auction will also be held. If you would like to donate an item to the Chinese Auction and make reservations, please call the Alliance at 419.673.4131 by December 6.

The December Ada schools lunch menu and nutrition newsletter are now on The Icon. 

Click here to read the nutrition newsletter.

The December menu is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

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