Several events are planned in early November in Ada, according to the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce. Here's a capsule of those events:
Fall Festival Nov. 3
Fall Festival of Crafts at Community Health Professionals. Local crafters will sell their creations to help Ada residents with holiday decorations and gifts. A soup bar will be available featuring:
• Homemade ham and beans
• Cornbread
• Fresh vegetable soup
• Homemade bread
• Cookies and drinks.
Here's a message from the Ada Academic Boosters: Want to win an iPad for Christmas? If you are an Ada sixth grader through senior, you are in luck.
For every 10 boxtops for Education or Campbell Point of Education labels that you bring to the school, you will receive one chance at winning the grand prize of an iPad. So, start collecting labels.
The final day to enter is Dec. 1. The winner will be drawn on the live video feed during morning announcements. Bring box tops to your English teacher’s classroom. Put 10 labels in a plastic baggie with your name and drop it off to your English teacher.
Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the mid-Atlantic region and will make landfall this evening in New Jersey. Historic impacts are expected with damaging winds, flooding, life-threatening storm surges and widespread power outages.
For AEP customers...the main impacts will be high winds for AEP Ohio and crippling amounts of heavy wet snow for the mountains of Kentucky Power & APCo. At 5 am Monday...Sandy was located 285 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Maximum sustained winds were 85 mph and she was moving north at 15 mph.
November and December are busy - fun - months for the Ada Community.
The holiday season start with a craft show from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Community Health Professionals, and concludes with a new year's eve dinner at The Inn at ONU on Monday, Dec. 31.
In between are the Festival of Trees, lots of holiday concerts, breakfast with Santa and a host of other events.
The complete November-December Ada events calendar is listed on the Ada Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) newsletter. It is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
The 47th annual Ada Town and Gown Banquet will be held in the McIntosh Center ballroom on the campus of Ohio Northern University on Monday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m.
The Town and Gown Association was established in 1957 by a group of townspeople and ONU personnel to develop and maintain a strong positive relationship between the village of Ada and Ohio Northern. As with each year, the honor of Distinguished Citizen of the Year will be given to an Ada resident nominated by fellow citizens.
Watch for more Ada cash mobs. That’s the word from the Buy Ada First committee. After a first-ever try at a cash mob on Oct. 16 at Reichert’s, the committee hopes to do a new one each quarter.
Fred Reichert told the committee, which met on Oct. 24, that the cash mob at his Main Street store “exceeded his expectations.”
The committee hopes to hold a winter, spring summer and fall cash mob in 2013. Locations are now under consideration.
In addition to cash mobs, the committee hopes to schedule three Music on Main events next summer. One was held this past summer and was received with great success at the depot park.
