The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive Monday, July 9, from 11:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. at Ada Visiting Nurses, located on State Route 235 on the edge of Ada.
While walk-in donors are welcome, donors are encouraged to make appointments. To make an appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS or go to www.redcrossblood.org.
Blood Donors Must:
Be healthy
Be at least 17 years old in most states, or 16 years old with parental consent if allowed by state law
Weigh at least 110 lbs.
Additional weight requirements apply for donors 18 years old and younger and all high school donors.
The Hardin County Historical Museum offers "Wonderful Wednesdays" to youth ages 8 to 12 this summer.
Event are from 10 a.m. to noon on July 11, 18, 25 and Aug. 1. These take place at the Hardin Historical Village and Farm on the Hardin County Fairgrounds, Kenton.
There is no cost, but pre-registration is required. The last day to register is July 6. The schedule follows:
July 11 - Flower gardening
July 18 - Tie-dye a t-shirt
July 25 - Pioneer recycling
Aug. 1 - Make ice cream
The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded the entrepreneurship program at Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration a Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) to support small business growth and development in a four-county area surrounding ONU. The grant totals $92,000.
The grant provides ONU with the funds to develop outreach programs to help develop growth and expansion of microenterprise development (small businesses with less than 50 employees and gross sales less than $1 million) and growth in a four-county area: Allen, Hancock, Hardin and Wyandot.
Paige Dirmeyer is one of the summer deejays at WONB FM radio. Paige is also the station's Public Affairs Director and is a 2009 grad of Ada High School. She is one of three Ada HS grads working for WONB this summer.
Austin Weber, who plans to study marketing at the University of Akron next fall, already has some impressive marketing campaigns under his belt. The 2012 Ada High School graduate demonstrated his outgoing personality and creative thinking when he showed up in the stands of Ada football games as a “Superfan.”
