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A crowd estimated around 2,000 persons attended the Aug. 4 National Night Out at the Bluffton Community Swimming Pool. Among activites was a kid's bowling game using a fire hose. For more photos click here.

FROM ADA ICON - The 102nd annual Ada Farmers’ and Merchants’ Picnic takes place Friday and Saturday, Aug. 7-8 in the War Memorial Park.

Here’s this year’s schedule:

Friday, Aug. 7
• Party in the Back 40.
Gates open 5 p.m. Exploit on stage from 7:30 to 12:30 a.m.
• Picnic Pull, 7 p.m. (schedule at bottom of story)

OHSAA to Revise School Enrollment Counts for 2015-16

Board of directors votes to withdraw community school and STEM school students and reconfigure tournament divisional assignments

The Ohio High School Athletic Association board of directors deliberated Thursday and voted to remove students who attend community schools and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) schools from their local public school enrollment counts.

Kaye E. Elwood, 79, died August 5, 2015, at Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus. 

Kaye was born May 11, 1936, in Columbus Grove to Richard and M. Virginia (Lora) Staley who preceded her in death. On Feb. 23, 1957, she married Herbert Elwood and he survives.

Kaye had worked at Stratton Greenhouse, Bluffton. She was a member of County Line Church of the Brethren, Ada. 

The summer issue of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio “The Visioneer” is now on the Icon.

The issue includes some recent stories from Willow Ridge, an announcement about Delay the Disease program and some photos of Anita Lehman’s artwork recently displayed at the Mennonite Memorial Home.

To read the newsletter open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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