Community Health Professionals Hospice-Beacon of Hope invite Icon viewers to a dinner and charity auction held at Community Health Professionals of Ada, 1200 S. Main St., according to Deb Curlis.
The event is Thursday, Oct. 4. Dinner is served at 6 p.m. and the auction begins at 7 p.m. Dinner is catered by Anita’s Kitchen.
Tickets are $20 each or $100 for a table of six. The event includes both live and silent auctions. Marvin Ford is the auctioneer.
All proceeds benefit the Visiting Nurses and Hospice services of Community Health Professionals. The organization is a 501c3 and all donations are tax-deductible.
Relay for Life at Ohio Northern University hopes to expand to include more Ada community involvement in 2013.
Watch the video at the bottom of this story.
The Relay chair and co-chairs told about next year's Relay's plans during the Sept. 19 Ada Area Chamber of Commerce meeting. Jaclyn Purgert is chairing the event for the third year. She is a fifth-year pharmacy student at ONU. The Relay's co-chairs are Victoria Cho and Vanja Raduka.
The 2013 Relay is Friday and Saturday, April 19-20, on the ONU campus. The opening ceremony starts at 6 p.m. on April 19. The closing ceremony is at noon on April 20.
Medicare Answers is the topic of a “lunch and learn” event held at Community Health Professionals of Ada, 1200 S. Main St., Ada, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27.
The one-hour program, sponsored by Liberty National Bank and Community Health Professionals includes a panel of four speakers and a lunch is provided to all who attend.
The panel includes:
• Home Care – Community Health Professionals of Ada
• Nursing Home Care – Richland Manor
• Hospital – Hardin Memorial Hospital
• Local Physician – Dr. Katherine Johnson
If you are a registered Ohio voter you may have already received a letter from the Ohio Secretary of State labeled "Official Election Mail."
Here's what it's all about:
All registered voters, who have kept their address current within Ohio's voter database, will receive a letter along with an absentee ballot application
The first round of applications will be mailed out Aug. 31, 2012, arriving in mailboxes after Labor Day.
A second supplemental mailing in early October, will include voters who have registered or updated their information after Aug. 6, 2012.
Ohio Northern University student Elissa McCracken, who was crowned Miss Ohio this summer, made an official Ada visit on Saturday at the Harvest and Herb Fest.
She told The Ada Icon that she is taking the year off from school in preparation for the Miss America pageant and for visits around Ohio. She will compete for the Miss America title in January 2013 in Las Vegas.
McCracken, 20, of Waynesburg, Pa., is a pharmacy major at ONU. She won the crown over 24 other contestants. As Miss Ohio she will receive a $10,000 scholarship from Newman Technology among other gifts. McCracken's platform is "stop cyberbullying."
The Blanchard Valley Hospital Environmental Services department, Findlay, also known as housekeeping, has received the 2012 Environmental Services Department of the Year Runner Up award from Health Forum’s Health Facilities Management magazine and the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE).
