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Registration Forms must be postmarked by August 1,2024.

The Hardin County Agricultural Society is hosting a cheerleading competition at the Hardin County Fair on Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. The competition is for school squads, recreation squads, local gyms, and USASF teams.

The competition will have tumbling & non-tumbling and stunting & non-stunting divisions in the following categories: Competition (3 minute limit); Game Day (3 minute limit) **Incorporates Fight Song, Crowd-Leading and Band Chant w/transitions; or Fight Song Only (1 minute limit).

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Bill Herr taught high school mathematics and science for 32 years. After retiring from teaching, he began a nursing home ministry, first as a volunteer and then as a nursing home chaplain. He has written columns for the Icon on Bluffton sports history and on being a chaplain.

 J. Larry Klingler, age 88, of Ada, passed away on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Bridge Hospice Care Center at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. 

The American Red Cross asks donors to make and keep appointments this July at one of several area locations to help meet life-saving transfusion needs this summer.

To make an appointment, visit www.redcrossblood.org/

Listed below are additional dates and locations where you can donate blood this month. 

The Ada Visiting Nurses & Hospice will host a blood drive Monday, July 29 from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Two different types of blood donations will be administered, Whole and Power Red.

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By Paula Pyzik Scott

The July 8 community celebration of the new Wilson Football Factory, 517 E Highland Ave, held the media spotlight on Ada, Ohio for a second week.

OHSP releases July 4th statistics

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting 16 people lost their lives in 15 traffic crashes during the July Fourth reporting period, which began Wednesday, July 3 at midnight and ended Sunday, July 7 at 11:59 p.m.

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