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Icon book reviews: Arctic Rising, and Hurricane Fever

Local author author speculates dire nightmares
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Reviewed by Robert McCool
It's Monday in a sunny August blur where the world is in full bloom, the weather fine. During the past two days, and in addition to my regular weekend chores, I managed to read two speculative fiction novels where the weather is most definitively not fine.

Those books, Arctic Rising (Tor, ISBN 978-0-7653-1921-0), and Hurricane Fever (Tor, ISBN 978-0-7653-1922-7) by Tobias S. Buckell – an author who lives in Bluffton – take place in a space where global warming is transforming our world with an undesirable outcome.

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Bulldog golf season underway

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Photo by Carl Wilkerson
Story by Cort Reynolds
The Ada High School golf season is underway. From left, Dexter Woods, Jack Baumgartner, Geddes Klingler, Jacob Morgan, Drew Rush and Kamron Wilkerson.

MINSTER - The Ada golf team played a tri-match to tee off its season at the Arrowhead Golf Club in Minster.

Riverside won the event with a total of 211 strokes. New Bremen shot 217, while Ada tallied a 233 score. 

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Student-faculty paper collaboration

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy student Scott Alexander of Monroeville, Pa., co-authored an article with ONU pharmacy faculty member Natalie DiPietro Mager that was published in the May 2020 edition of Ohio Pharmacist.

The article, “What Role Can Pharmacists Play in Preventive Medicine?” examines how pharmacists can best be at the forefront of the call by the National Institutes of Health to improve the implementation of preventive services and reduce health disparities.

Alexander is a graduate of Gateway High School.

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Raccoon caught between AC and screen

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Ada police received an animal call on Aug. 11. The call recorded at 3:39 a.m. concerned a raccoon that was stuck between an air conditioner and a window screen at Unit 12, 540 E. Lincoln Ave. 

Attached to this story are recent Hardin County sheriff daily logs, in decending order from Aug. 3 to Aug. 11.

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Special council meeting Aug. 11 addresses pay ordinance

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 10, 2020

Ada council will meet in special session at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11, according to Angela Polachek, village human resources coordinator.

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and take action on pay ordinance 2020-15.

This meeting will only be available via WebEx virtual meeting. Guests may attend the meeting virtually by following the information below:

Meeting link: https://adaoh.webex.com/adaoh/j.php?MTID=mcb6e53db7b94911309fbceb530ed6c...

Meeting number:  129 387 1617 

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Health department holds special meeting Tuesday to discuss fair plans

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 10, 2020

Kenton Hardin Health Department will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11, in the second floor conference room.

The meeting is being held to discuss the fair plans. The Board also plans on going into executive session to discuss personnel. 

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Lincoln Highway Buy-Way yard sale this weekend

No charge to post your garage sale on Ada Icon
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 10, 2020

It’s time for the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale. This year’s sale takes place Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 13-14-15.

The Ada Icon will post all garage sales received during this, the biggest weekend of the garage sale season.

All garage sales are also posted on the Icon’s printer-friendly garage sale map. There is no charge to post a garage sale on the Icon and all sales are automatically posted on both Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon.

Send garage sales to: [email protected]. The Icon will respond to sends with a message line “thanks, got it.”

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World War II history course available virtually

Russ Crawford's Monday evening class is open to the public
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 10, 2020

Russ Crawford, professor of history at Ohio Northern University, will present a course on World War II that is available virtually to the public at no charge.

Interested persons may email Crawford at [email protected]. He will send interested persons a link to join the class online. 

Classes are Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and continue on Mondays through Nov. 9.

“The class focuses on the World Wars, from 1914 to 1945,” he said. “They are the axle around which the 20thcentury turned.”

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School lunches start with cheeseburger on a bun

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 10, 2020

Here's the August Ada school menu. The first day of classes is Monday, Aug. 24.

Meal prices:
• Breakfast Kindergarten to 12th: $1.25
Reduced: 30 cents
• Lunch prices:
K to 5: $2.15
6 to 12: $2.40
Reduced: 40 cents
Kindergarten students need 50 extra cents for an afternoon snack milk

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It's a new school year - perhaps 110 schools ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, August 10, 2020

Today starts classes for the 2020-21 academic year at Ohio Northern University. Here's a colorized post card photo showing a much earlier student body. We're not certain of the year, but based on student dress, it feels like circa 1910.

And, it appears that bow ties are never really out of fashion.

The wording at the bottom of the photo reads: "An acre of students on Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio."

This photo is from the collection of the Ada Public Library.

 

 

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