July 2016

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By Monty Siekerman

Among the candidates for prince and princess at F&M picnic Friday and Saturday, Aug. 12 and 13 are (front row, from left) Laevaeh Click-Conley, 5, and Laliyah Click-Conley, 3, daughters of Wendy Conley; Ryan Roberts, 9, son of Rusha Ford; Kyleigh Watson, 4, daughter of Jordan and Megan Watson; Savanna Rayl, 4, daughter of Courtney and Jason Rayl.

Back row, from left:  Robyn Newland, 11, daughter of John Knight; Kaylee Watson, 8, daughter of Jordan and Megan Watson; LynKin McDougle, 7, daughter of Aaron and Lyndsay McDougle; Bailey Eitel, 9, daughter of Chris and Cathy Eitel; Karmen Hall, 10, daughter of Michael and Andrea Hall.

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If you’r hear drum cadences, the Ada school fight song, or the music from Toy Story, it’ is the Ada High School Marching Band and Color Guard preparing for the 2016 fall football and competition season. 

Ada Band and Color Guard members are deep into marching band camp at the school. The camp started July 18 and continues until Friday, July 29.

A special preview performance will be held at the conclusion of camp at 7 p.m. Friday, July 29, in the Auxiliary gym. 

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The Alger Memorial Festival Committee will hold a country-style breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m., Saturday,  Aug. 6, at the Alger Social Center, 210 N. Main St., Alger.

The menu includes biscuits, sausage gravy, hash browns, scrambled eggs, fried apples, sausage patties and a beverage.

A suggested donation is $7. The breakfast is all-you-can-eat (premises only). Carry out is available. Call 419-679-8460 for free local delivery.

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The Icon Weekend edition is now posted. Open the attachment at the bottom of this story for information about events taking place in the Icon viewership area next week.

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Judge Randall Basinger, Putnam County Common Pleas Judge, running for the 17-county 3rd District Court of Appeals, is the featured speaker for the Hardin County Democrat’s annual Kick-Off dinner.

The dinner is Saturday, July 30, at 6 p.m. at the Goshen Grange Hall, 18977 County Road 120, corner of Hardin County Road 120 and Township Road 205 east of Kenton.

Judge Basinger has also served as an appellate judge assigned by the Supreme Court on the 11th and 8th District Courts of Appeals on approximately 200 cases.

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Ada High School varsity fall sports schedules are listed on the Icon's sport calendar. The Icon has posted August and September contest for football, volleyball, girls' soccer, boys' soccer, boys' golf, cross country and girls' tennis on the calendar.

October and November games will be posted soon.

To access the calendar place your cursor over the "calendar" on the black scroll bar at the top of the home page. The "sports calendar" box will drop down.

Click on it and the sports calendar will appear.

You can also access the sports calendar by clicking here.

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Apollo Career Center board of education will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 15, at Apollo.

One of the items on the agenda is to accept a bid from Cardinal Bus for a 72-passenger school bus at $75,178.

The entire board agenda is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.

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FOLLOW STORY FROM WWW.NLF.COM - According to NFL spokesman Michael Signora, the league will use microchips in footballs during the preseason as part of the next phase of the Next Gen Stats player tracking project.

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A chip will be placed in every ball during the preseason.

Following the preseason test, the league's Competition Committee will review the results to determine how the balls performed along with the potential uses of the data collected, Signora said.

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Ada will be the Ohio capital for pole vaulting, and for that matter, the Midwest, on Saturday as Vault on The Tundra comes to ONU.

For athletes who pole vault, the event offers competition for high school girls, boys and collegiate women and men and an open class. This is the second year for Vault on The Tundra.

Here's the schedule:
10:30 a.m. - High school girls
Noon - High school boys
1:30 p.m. - Collegiate/open women
3 p.m. - Collegiate/open men

Competition takes place at Quad South of King Horn. In the event of rain the competition goes indoors.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Alger Assembly of God will hold Vacation Bible School from Monday, July 25, to Friday, July 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the church. It is open to youth ages 4 through fifth grade.

This year's VBS theme is Cave Quest: Following Jesus The Light of the World.

A Family Fun Day takes place Sunday, July 31, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event includes music, inflaatables and free food.

The church is located at 7059 State Route 235, Alger.

 

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