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December 2015

Library Holiday Hours

Posted by Rhett Grant on Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Come in and get your items before the long holiday weekend.
The Ada Library's hours are as follows for the New Year's celebrations:

Thursday, December 31st - CLOSE at 3p.m.
Friday, January 1st - CLOSED
Saturday, January 2nd - CLOSED

We will reopen on Monday, January 3rd for normal business hours!

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2015 Ada business review: the picture brightened

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Although the business climate in America has been cloudy, almost stormy, since the millennium, business in Ada shown bright in 2015.

Deb Curlis, president of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, reports these major advances during the past year:

* Construction began on the $6 million Vancrest Nursing Home on SR 81.

* St. Rita's broke ground for a $1 million health facility near the nursing home.

*Not technically a business, but another major construction project underway in the Village is the $16 million water treatment plant.

All three of these sizeable projects will be completed in 2016.

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2015 - let's look back one more time

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Farewell, 2015.

Certainly a year to remember. The Icon took hundreds of photos in the past 365 or so days.

We’ve chosen one from each  month to represent the year that’s quickly fading. Some of photos are news worthy. Others are simply fun.

We hope these 12 paint a picture representing of life in 2015 in a small northwestern Ohio town named Ada.

Take a close look. You might find yourself here.

Enjoy them.

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Here's Ada school's January menus

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Start starts on Monday, Jan. 4. What's for lunch in Ada schools in January? 
• Click here for the January menu

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Ideal Images, Bluffton, after Christmas sale underway

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Ideal Images, inside The Black Lab, 121 N. Main St., Bluffton, has an after Christmas sale underway now through Dec. 31. 567-226-1096.

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Did you know Ada High School had an orchestra?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, December 28, 2015

Eighty-five school years ago, Ada High School had an orchestra. Here's the photo from the 1931 yearbook.

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Exterior of Vancrest Nursing Home 90% complete

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, December 28, 2015

Construction of Vancrest Nursing Home, located near the school, is moving along, especially with good fall and early winter weather.

The exterior is 90 percent complete, the first layer of asphalt is down, and work is now concentrated on the inside: heating, electrical, plumbing, dry wall, and painting. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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If it was snow, we'd be hip deep in it

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, December 28, 2015

Christmas is over...and then the rains came.

Ken Collins, Icon's roving photographer, took these photos of Ada on the afternoon of Dec. 28, as the rains came.

Views include 
• a flooded field just east of Ada 
• scene east of Ada
• Grass Run
• flooded North Simon Street,.

 

 

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Meanwhile, for Ada Icon viewers...here's the Christmas lights of Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 26, 2015

NOTE to Ada Icon viewers: Bluffton and Ada Icons, internet sites in the same family, offer a post-Christmas switch.

The Ada Icon's "Ada's Christmas Scenes of 2015," is now also featured on the Bluffton Icon home page in the interest of Bluffton viewser.

Likewise, Bluffton Icon's "2015 Bluffton Christmas Lights Winners," is featured on Ada Icon. Please enjoy views of Bluffton at Christmas, while Bluffton viewers enjoy views of Ada at Christmas.

BLUFFTON CHRISTMAS PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

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Richard Lasko memorial service on Dec. 30

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 25, 2015

Richard Lasko, 78, died on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, Ohio.

He was born on July 18, 1937, in Niles, Ohio, to Anthony and Marianne (Belicki) Lasko who preceded him in death. On Aug. 26, 1967, he married Judith McClure and she died Jan. 21, 2014.

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