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March 2021

Look who is on the OSU-Lima dean's list

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Several area students are on the Ohio State-Lima autumn semester dean’s list. Criteria varies by college. It is usually based on the grade point average for  the term and the number of credit hours taken. Many colleges require a minimum of 12 graded credit hours with a 3.5 GPA or higher.

Ada
Sarah Blevins
Allison Dotson
Emma Jameson
Breanna Miller
Kelly Preston
Jessica Robinson
Rakan Roda
Alexis Swaney
Paul Yuhasz

Alger
Tayler Lawrence

Dunkirk
Virginia Mills
Gabriella Weaver

Forest
Ashley Breidenbach

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Jami Dellifield is the Icon's Golden Globe contest winner

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Ada Icon viewer, Jami Dellifield, is the winner of the Icon’s Golden Globe contest. She correctly picked seven winning categories in the contest.

She wins a 16-inch, 2-item pizza from 3 Brothers Family Pizza, Ada.

Watch for the next Icon contest coming at any time.

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So, you think you know Ada?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 9, 2021

So, you think you know Ada? Okay, where is this? Answer tomorrow.

And, for a real brain-teaser, click here for this week's "So, you think you know Bluffton mystery?" photo.

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ONU spring previews: Women's tennis and softball

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 8, 2021

Here are previews of the Ohio Northern University women’s tennis team and softball team.

By Tim Glon

Women’s tennis preview
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's tennis team is hoping to use a balanced approach in its quest for an Ohio Athletic Conference championship in 2021 under 20th-year head coach Scott Wills.

The Polar Bears feature a good blend balance of experience and youth - with three fifth-year seniors and six first or second year players.

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ONU men drop OAC title game

Spring sports underway - recent game summaries here
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 8, 2021

By Tim Glon
MARIETTA — Ohio Northern fell at No. 6-ranked Marietta 100-49 in the championship game of the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament on Saturday night at at Ban Johnson Fieldhouse.

The fifth-seeded Polar Bears end their season at 6-8, while the top-seeded Pioneers end their season at 13-2.

The game marked the second time in the past four seasons that Ohio Northern reached the finals of the OAC Tournament.

Sophomores Grant Heileman (Millersport/Sheridan) and Landen Long (Mason) were named to the All-OAC Tournament Team.

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McClain paces Ada grapplers at districts

With winter sports in the books Bulldogs focus on spring
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 8, 2021

By Cort Reynolds
TROY - Three Ada wrestlers competed in the Div. III district tournament at Troy's Hobart Arena Friday and Saturday to finish their season strongly, led by one Bulldog freshman placing sixth.

"We wrestled hard all weekend," said Ada head coach David Ames. "We fought hard and wrestled tough." 

The double-elimination tournament format allows wrestlers who lose one match to still finish as high as third by making their way through the consolation draw.

After a promising start, Ada freshman Clayton McClain went 2-3 in the 113 lbs. division to finish sixth and narrowly miss state qualification.

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­­­­They call the needle Moderna

Everyone could use a little needling now and then. Especially now.
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 8, 2021

By Fred Steiner
Completing my civic duty, on Friday I had my second appointment with the Needle they call Moderna.­­­  

Was it lovelier the second time around? Emphatically yes.

Everyone could use a little needling now and then. Especially now.

And, everyone who gets the Needle should tell others to get it. That would make the world a better, safer place. So, I’m telling you about it.

Plus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today: “Fully vaccinated people can gather indoors without masks with other vaccinated people and small groups of unvaccinated people in some circumstances.”

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Are you in this photo?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 8, 2021

Our best guess is that this is a class photo of the 1973 Ada High School seniors. It's in the '73 yearbook inside 2-page spread. But, there's no label that goes with the photo.

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Ralph Worrell served on the LaFayette-Jackson Fire Department

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 8, 2021

 Ralph M. Worrell, 86, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at 1:10 p.m. at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.

He was born on Oct. 5, 1934, in Jackson Township, Ohio, to the late Roy Orr and Hazel Vesta (Harshe) Worrell.   On Jan. 26, 1957, he married his loving wife of 64 years, Patsy F. Long, and she resides at Vancrest of Ada.

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Icon book review: The Great Influenza Of 1918

This book is about the heroes who worked tirelessly in labs and in the field to try to find a cure, or even better, a vaccine
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, March 7, 2021

Review by Robert McCool
This is a big book on a big topic. 745 pages plus 181 pages (large print) of references and bibliography covering two years of research and attempts for a cure to the worst pandemic we've ever had.

“The Great Influenza of 1918” (Random House, ISBN 978-0-593-34646-4) from author John M. Barry is extensively researched and well written enough to keep you reading all those pages. I can say I liked it, mostly because of the similarity to today's pandemic. And our response to it, which is so much like the response in 1918. We grew to fear, just like in 1918.

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