November 2016

The Ada Public Library has expanded in many ways over the past four years. Several charts demonstrate that expansion.

Amanda Bennett, library director, said, “We are very proud of what we’ve accomplished in the last four years. Thank you to our patrons for pushing us to be a better library every day.”

Charts are attachments to this story.

For example, from 2012 to 2015:
• Circulation increased 137.2 percent
• Summer reading program registrations increased 57.3 percent
• Library programs and attendance in those programs increased 271 percent
• Library visits have increased 30.7 percent

Monday, Nov. 21,  is the deadline for craft vendors to reserve a table at Ada Vancrest's first-ever Craft Fair  held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10.

Reports are that the fair is drawing a lot of interest among vendors, and their are still tables available at $30, plus $5 more if you use one of their tables and $5 more if you need electricity. Call 419-558-1379.

Vancrest Ada, a nursing home and rehabilitation center, opened this year at 600 W. North Ave., across from the Ada Schools.

James F. “Jim” Dicke, Sr., New Bremen, Ohio, died on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016.

The namesake of Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration was 94 years old.

Dicke, the chairman emeritus of Crown Equipment Corporation, was born Jan. 30, 1922, in Ilion, New York, and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He took classes at Ohio Northern University in the early 1940s before joining the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He considered both ONU and Culver Military Academy, of which he was an honorary graduate, his schools.

Here's news updates from Jon Umphress on the Ada Kiwanis Club:

• Club members Carol Friesner, Marilyn Green, and Sandy Neely will chair a committee to plan and organize the club’s annual Christmas Luncheon/ Auction.  

The event will be held at the Community Health Professionals on Tuesday Dec. 13, at noon. Members of the Lima Kiwanis Club and the Ada Rotary Club will be invited to attend to attend. Gift of books to classes at the Ada Elementary Nursery School will presented by the club. Auction proceeds will be donated to the Ada Food Pantry.