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Welcome to Ada’s A-B-C Summer Contest.

Each week in June and ending in the first week of July, The Icon will post two photos revealing one letter (or number) taken from Main Street Ada buildings and structures. All photos were taken in May by the Icon’s official contest photographer, Bailey Bowers. The photos cover Main from College Avenue on the south to Highland Avenue on the north.

We invite Icon viewers to keep track of the letters by identifying each letter’s location. An entry form is attached to this story for viewers to keep up to date in the contest.

Lunch is served! And it’s a picnic in the park.

From June 23 until Aug. 8 ReStore Community Center is providing free and reduced lunches to Ada youth, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Ohio Department of Education.

The lunches are provided at the Ada Park shelter house number 2 Mondays through Fridays noon to 1:30 p.m. The lunches are provided through the grant Monday to Thursdays. Padrone’s Pizza provides lunch on Fridays.

The Ada High School Class of 1983 will hold its 31st year class reunion at The Inn at ONU on Saturday, Aug. 2. 

Cocktails will be served from 6 to 7 p.m. and dinner is from 7: to 10 p.m.
Cost is $20 per person.

Please email Andy Milks at [email protected] for more information and to make your reservation.​

Do you know how to dig corn roots and look for the presence of Corn Rootworm damage?  Hardin County OSU Extension will be offering a Corn Rootworm Twilight Tour on Tuesday, July 1 at 7:00 pm.  Participants at this Twilight Tour will learn how big of a problem this pest is, along with how to manage it. 

Rohrs Farms, 810 Courtright Street in McGuffey, Ohio will be the location of this evening event.  Dr. Andy Michel, OSU Extension Specialist, Entomology will be the presenter.

So, you think you know Ada? Okay, where's this letter?

Welcome to Ada’s A-B-C Summer Contest.

Each week in June and ending in the first week of July, The Icon will post two photos revealing one letter (or number) taken from Main Street Ada buildings and structures. All photos were taken in May by the Icon’s official contest photographer, Bailey Bowers. The photos cover Main from College Avenue on the south to Highland Avenue on the north.
We invite Icon viewers to keep track of the letters by identifying each letter’s location. An entry form is attached to this story for viewers to keep up to date in the contest.

It's summer. The Ada pool is open. Here's answers to all the questions you have about the pool this summer.

An attachement at the bottom of this story provides a list of all pool rules and regulations.

Seth Epley is this year's pool manager and Jonathan Robey is the assistant manager. The pool will be open, weather permitting daily through Aug. 10. Daily admission is $3.

Swim hours are 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. During home swim meets on June 26 and July 3 the pool will close at 4 p.m.

To review all additional services provided by the pool open the printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story.

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