New Leaf Landscape and Garden Center, 0395 State Route 235, Ada, will hold its Christmas open house Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 19-21.
The open house will include several special offers plus door prizes. Included in the open house are:
• a county area with Buffalo Plaid, galvanized and farm theme items
• a snowy and snowmen area
• a cardinals and grapevine area
• and a red, gold and silver glitter area.
Allen County is experiencing its highest surge of coronavirus cases since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The following announcement was made today by the Allen County Health Department:
Prior to this recent surge of cases that began in October, the most cases Allen County had reported in one month was 522 in August. In just the past 5 days Allen County has reported 603 new cases.
The most recent comparison of per capita rates of Ohio’s 88 counties ranked Allen County as having the 4th highest rate of new cases per 100,000 people in the past 14 days.
Bluffton's largest vacuum sweep is a hungry guy. It eat leaves in the fall and hibernates until the next fall. The village crew is out today as the vacuum continues its feed frenzy.
By Amelia Alexander Note: Amelia, an Ada HS student, is the Icon's newest columnist. Writing twice a month, this is her second column. Click here to read her first column. You will find all her future columns on our "Columnists" page.
The fate of the climate rests upon my generation’s shoulders.
That’s the message to Bluffton residents from Scott Malaney, president and CEO of Blanchard Valley Health Systems, and Dr. William Kose, vice president of special projects at BVHS.
The Icon talked with the two health professionals in a Zoom interview on Friday afternoon.
Sounding like a broken record, but an important one, both encourage people to continue three basic rules:
• Wear a mask in public
• Keep a six-foot distance from others when in public
• Washing your hands regularly
