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It's early August - that means it's band camp week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 31, 2013

VIDEO AND MORE PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM

A rite of summer - Ada High School band camp. It's going on right now and the band is tuning up for football games, parades and competitions.

Can't you just feel the tempo? Here's a quick look at some band camp photos and a video. 

The clarinet player in the photo accompanying this story is Alex Nickleson. More photos are in the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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Village Voice: The importance of proper street address placement

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 31, 2013

You are waiting for your pizza to be delivered, and you wonder why it is taking so long. Finally the driver arrives, frustrated because she couldn’t find your address on your house.

Waiting a few extra minutes for a pizza is an inconvenience, but having an improperly placed street address, or no visible street address, could be a life or death situation when emergency services are trying to respond to a call.

Work orders for water and sewer services are issued based on street addresses, and if Village employees have difficulty locating your house number, your requested work may be delayed.

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Shadley Auto Service announces August specials - coupon attached

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Shadley Auto Service, 2862 State Route 309, Ada, is the Ada Icon's newest advertiser.

This month Shadley's special incluldes:

• 15 PERCENT OFF
   • Tune up
   • Transmission flush
   • Upper intake cleaning
Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Must present coupon at time of service.

• AIR CONDITIONING SPECIAL
   • 10 percent off recharge
Limit one coupon per customer per visit. Must present coupon at time of service.

Print the attachment coupon to participate in this offer. This offer expires Aug. 31, 2013.

 

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Ragin' Cajun Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn flavor of the month

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 31, 2013

It's August and there's a new popcorn flavor of the month at Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn Co., Bluffton.

"Late-summertime at Shirley's means we celebrate with this spicy August favorite - Ragin' Cajun. It's packed with a little southern heat and a lot of smoky flavor to add the perfect punch to your party," says Peter Suter of Shirley's.

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1954 Ada children's theatre photograph

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 30, 2013

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

Here's a photograph from the Ada Public Library collection. The photo is identified as a 1954 Ada community theater children's production.

Icon viewers information on this photo are welcome.

1st row, from left - Bonnie Springer, Norman Noe, Tom Parkhill, Linda Marchant, Susan Brown
2nd row, from left - Fran Price, Joe Beschoff, Betty Miller
3rd row, from left, Ann Lowry, Robert Lamb, Smith (?)

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50 free programs + 1,277 people = very successful summer library program

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Submitted by Amanda Bennett

They say that it takes a village...and it does. Without the generous support of so many Ada businesses, and so many families willing to participate in Summer Reading 2013, we wouldn’t have had the successful year that we did.

Thank you to all of the businesses and individuals who made donations to be used toward our program, and for those individuals who were always willing to stop and offer assistance; because of the support of the community we were able to offer over 50 free programs in the six weeks of Summer Reading and had 1,277 people show up for our programs!

Many thanks to:

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Thanks to Dr. Jimmy Wilson, ONU is in 3-D on Google Earth

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Earlier this summer Dr. Jimmy Wilson, professor of geography, updated the Ada Kiwanis Club on the Ohio Northern University Google Earth project. The following story was posted on the ONU website in October 2012. It provides the information about the project, so that Icon viewers may understand how it was put into place.

To download Google Earth for your computer visit:  http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

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Ada Icon renews membership to Online News Association

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ada Icon has renewed its membership in the Online News Association (ONA).

The Online News Association is composed largely of professional digital journalists. Founded in 1999, ONA now has more than 2,000 professional members whose principal livelihood involves gathering or producing news for digital presentation.

The membership includes news writers, producers, designers, editors, photographers, technologists and others who produce news for the Internet or other digital delivery systems, as well as academic members and others interested in the development of online journalism.

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Who am I? My aunt worked with Madonna during the filming of a movie

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, July 29, 2013

By Alisa Ambrecht

Who Am I?

• I graduated from Ada in 1991.

• I competed in track and soccer in high school, I swam for one year and won the Coach's Award for that year.

• I like to run and have competed in two full marathons and two half marathons.

• I am starting my third season as a volunteer coach for a certain sport at Ada High School.

• I usually get invited to weddings for the sole purpose of entertaining the guests with my mad dancing skills.

• I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan and got to attend Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.

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Ada Barnyard Farmers 4-H Club will have petting zoo at F&M Picnic

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, July 29, 2013

For our 4-H meeting on July 28, first we practiced showmanship. Raina England did a 4-H project on volleyball. Levi England did his on cautions of welding. Justin England did his on types of catfish in Ohio. 

Livestock judging is on August 7th from 9 to 5 at Hardin county fairgrounds, 4-h swim party is august 5th. August 10th we will be having a petting zoo for the community at the F&M picnic.

Our next meeting will be at Hazelton’s to practice showmanship at 6:00p.m August 25.

Hope to see you at our petting zoo.

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