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Mobile Food Pantry in Ada Aug. 21

On Tuesday, Aug. 21, from 3-5 p.m. there will be a mobile food pantry from the West Ohio Food Bank located at the former Ada First United Methodist Church parking lot. There will be 5,000 pounds of food to give away to the community.

ReStore Community Center is partnering with Ohio Northern University to host this event as part of Ada Civic Engagement Day. On Aug. 21, all first-year ONU students will serve at different locations in the community to meet various needs in the community and raise the visibility of service learning.

All community members are invited to participate in this free food give away. There are no qualifications to receive this food.

AEP expects severe thunderstorms today

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather information for July 26:

The atmosphere will become hot and extremely unstable ahead of an approaching cold front today. The result will be severe thunderstorms over much of the Upper Ohio Valley. Scattered severe thunderstorms will erupt early this afternoon across Indiana and northwest Ohio.

Severe storms will become more numerous as they spread southeast across the heart of AEP Ohio late this afternoon.  Expect damaging wind gusts to 65 mph over Ohio.
Severe storms of this coverage and intensity typically cause moderate problems for AEP Ohio. 

Norma Y. Weller was a 1940 Ada High School graduate

Visitation:
Friday, July 27, 2012
11:00 AM until 12:00 PM
Hanson-Neely Funeral Home
311 East Lima Avenue
Ada

Service:
Friday, July 27
12:00 PM

Services for Norma Y. Weller will be at noon Friday at Hanson-Neely Funeral Home in Ada by Pastor Ken Green. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Ada.

Friends may call one hour prior to services Friday.

She died early Monday morning, July 23, 2012 at her residence.

She was born Dec. 24, 1922 in Marion to Ivan M. and Fairydale (Jones) Obenour. On March 22, 1942 she married Lawrence Weller and he died June 14, 1971.

Music on Main - wait until next year - it might get bigger!

Check out the photos at the bottom of the story.

Did you like the July 12 Music on Main party? Good, because next summer there may be more parties downtown. The Buy-Local Committee, meeting July 25, reviewed their first attempt at a downtown promotion and are in the discussion stages of doing more next summer.

Although no plans are set, Music on Main might appear once a month in June, July and August.

The ad hoc committee has several ideas in the thinking stage. For example, how about an Ada garden tour next summer? Or, a downtown cash mob?  These are two ideas being explored by the committee.

Matt Gray headed to Allegheny College - will major in chemistry

Note: This is the fourth of several Icon profiles of Ada High School 2012 graduates. Profiles are by Kenzie Fell.

Click here for a feature on Drew Crabtree and others in this series.

Band camp season

Ada High School band director, Jonathan Lischak, keeps the cadence as members of the band practice their moves. Ada's band camp is underway in preparation for this fall's football season. Watch the video.

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