FROM ADA ICON - Bluffton’s annual Fall Festival is next Saturday, Sept. 23 – and The Icon will provide lots of details about it soon.

In the meantime, Saturday, Sept. 16, is Ada’s 32nd annual Harvest and Herb Festival.  Sponsored by the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, it takes place in downtown Ada.

This year’s festival is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As in past year’s, it will fill Ada’s Main Street from Highland to College. Main Street will be closed at State Route 235 all the way to State Route 81.

The festival has over 120 vendors already signed up.

Entertainment takes place from noon to 4 p.m. in the depot parking lot. Following the opening ceremonies the 2017 Harvest and Herb Festival queen will be announced. Four Ada High School senior candidates are Caitlyn Stover, Lyric Jones, Madison Preston and Nikki Lehsten.

Entertainment – in depot parking lot

12:45 p.m. -  Ali McClintock / Country variety show
1:30 p.m. -  Emma Ferguson / Pop & Country show
2:15  p.m. - Mark Hodges / Oldies but Goodies
3:30 p.m. - The Wild Steelions / Steel Drum Band – they will perform at Bluffton’s Fall Festival
4 p.m. - Closing of the Festival

Parade details - you can still enter

Participants are invited to join the Harvest and Herb Festival parade. The parade forms at 9 a.m. in the Ada schools parking lot and starts at 10 a.m.

Junior Weihrauch of Arlington is the parade director. Persons with questions may contact him at 419-365-5304 or 419-889-4315.