New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Shelley Shepard Gray, will be visiting the Ada Public Library, Saturday, June 13th at 11a.m.
Gray is best known for her Amish fiction books--which are extremely popular with the patrons of the Ada Public Library--and will be selling copies of her latest book, The Proposal at Siesta Key. The Library's Amish Book Club, led by Natalie Walton, is currently reading the first book in the series, The Promise of Palm Grove, and copies are available for checkout at the Library.
The Ada farmers' market opened for the season on Thursday in the Depot parking lo. for the past two years the market was at Community Health Professionals.
ReStore took over the market this year. It will be open each Thursday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monty Siekerman visited the opening day event and took these photos.
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• Gus Guthrie
• Andrea Massillo offers sweets for sale to Cindy Mowery.
• Dana Walters and Robert Kanzig had an eclectic mix of items for sale at the farmer's market. Dana is executive director while Robert is assistant director of ReStore, the group heading up the market this year.
Gus Guthrie, the big booster of the Ada farmer's market, shows the pies he had for sale at the season's first market on Thursday afternoon at the Railroad Depot. Gus offered strawberries, garden plants, and had other goods for customers to purchase. See more photos below. (Monty Siekerman)
A free lunch for area grade school children started this week and continues weekdays through Aug. 17 at the War Memorial Park, shelter house 2. The program is called "Picnic in the Park."
In the first three days of the program 54 youth received a lunch. Last year the program fed up to 60 youth in one day.
This is the third year for the program, sponsored by ReStore Community Center. The program receives support from the Hardin County United Way. Food is donated from the West Ohio Food Bank, Lima. Friday meals are pizza, donated by Padrone's of Ada.
