President Harold Friesner called the 39th meeting (July 31th) of the 2011–2012 Kiwanis Year to order at 12:03 p.m. on Tuesday July 31, 2912 at McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University
Jon Umphress offers the Invocation.
Joe Ferguson introduced his guest, Saiko Takeda who is visiting here from Japan for two weeks for an exchange program.
The birthday of Bob McCurdy (July 29th) was noted in song. The membership agreed that no Grammy awards would be presented for the performance.
According to Guy Verhoff, local weather observer and weather reporter to The Icon, the average July temperature for the Ada-Bluffton area is 72.8 degrees. This July the average daily temperature was 78.3 degrees.
The maximum temperature was 102 on July 6. The minimum was a cool 56 on July 21 - that's a 46 degree difference. The daily maximum temperature reading in July surpassed 90 13 days. It surpassed 100 on three days.
July's normal rainfall is 4.18 inches. This year's July rainfall was only 3.85 inches. The heaviest rain fell on July 18-29 when 3.27 inches was recorded.
Ada Police Chief Michael Harnishfeger provided The Icon with the Ada police call log from July 23 to July 27:
July 23rd
Assisted EMS on N Main St
Handled suspicious noise complaint on College Ave
Traffic stop warning for Equipment
Handled suspicious person complaint on W Buckeye Ave
Traffic stop warning for Expired Plates
