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Shirley's Popcorn celebrates National Popcorn Day, Jan. 23

Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn, Bluffton, is celebrating National Popcorn Day, with several activities on Saturday, Jan. 23, according to Peter Suter.

These include:
• Free theatre-style popcorn for everyone
• All bags of popcorn are Buy-One-Get-One free (equal or lesser value, limit 2)
• Employee popcorn cook-off

"Our associates are teaming in the store up to compete with their own flavor creations and you help determine the winner," said Suter.

Here are 2016 area county fair dates

Here are area county fair dates for 2016:

• June 20-25 - Putnam, Ottawa
• July 27-Aug. 7 - Ohio State Fair, Columbus
• Aug. 19-27 - Allen, Lima
• Aug. 31- Sept. 5 - Van Wert, Van Wert
• Aug. 31- Sept. 5 - Hancock, Findlay
• Sept. 6-11 - Hardin, Kenton

Fit 4 Life BFR membership available this month

Bluffton Family Recreation offers its "Fit 4 Life" membership in January, according to Joseph Beagle, director.

The membership provides a six-week BFR membership, unlimited access to all BFR facilities including the indoor walking track, fitness center, arena and gymnasium. It also connects persons with a health coach to guide you through the six week period.

It also offers an "any class" fitness card for yoga, water aerobics, cardio and strength, total body conditioning and SilverSneakers.

The program officially started last week but is still open to persons interested in participating. Here's an overview of the program:

Wilson tells Kiwanis how he brings ONU students together with Ada residents

Story provided by Jon Umphress

Dr. Jimmy Wilson, ONU professor took several of his geography students to Ada Kiwanis recently where he shared much more than simply a geography lesson.

As featured speaker at the meeting, Wilson said like most college towns in America, Ada, enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the university that resides in it.

And while the relationship is ultimately mutually beneficial, there are always things that each side wishes could be different.

For the proud residents of Ada, one such thing is having Ohio Northern University students learn more than just coursework during their four years in the village.

New Hardin website launched

Here's an Ada photo from the homepage of the new Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance. The site launched Jan. 12. It provides tools and technology to promote the best of Hardin County and its communities, according to Jon Cross of the chamber and business alliance. The new website address is www.hardincountyoh.org with a shortened version of www.hccba.com that directs the user to the website homepage.

32,529 patrons visit Ada Public Library in 2015

By Amanda Bennett

The Ada Public Library is proud to announce its 2015 statistics, and would also like to recognize the hard work of its staff, particularly, Ms. Natalie Walton, Youth Service Coordinator, without who's tireless efforts and energy so many programs would not happen!

In 2015 the Ada Public Library:

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