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Helping put Ada on the performance map

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 26, 2012

Anita Cook, marketing director for The Freed Center for the Performing Arts on the Ohio Northern University campus.

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Here's the marketing person behind all those Freed Center for the Performing Arts productions

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 26, 2012

This isn’t difficult to believe: The marketing person for The Freed Center for the Performing Arts on the Ohio Northern University campus claims that she always secretly wanted to be a theatre major.

Those are the words of Anita Cook, Ohio Northern University graduate, independent contractor and marketing manager of The Freed Center.

Owner of Maestro Graphics, Cook is a freelance graphic artist, and her work with The Freed Center is one of the many multi-tasking positions she balances quite well.

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McDonald's Restaurant Company Hiring Day March 29

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Jerry Lewis’ McDonald’s Restaurants are looking to increase their workforce by up to 15 percent on Thursday, March 29, for its Company Hiring Day.

Jerry Lewis, local McDonald’s Restaurant franchisee owns 17 restaurants in seven counties employing more than 1,000 people. On Thursday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. McDonald’s managers in Ada, Bluffton, Beaverdam, Lima, Delphos, Van Wert, Ottawa, Hicksville, Carey and Upper Sandusky will be available to answer questions and conduct interviews for a variety of part-time positions at each of Jerry Lewis’ seventeen restaurant locations.

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Ohio Northern University to present three student-directed one-act plays

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present three student-directed one-act plays in the Stambaugh Studio Theatre from March 29 to 31 at 7:30 p.m. and March 31 and April 1 at 2 p.m.

The event kicks off with a shortened version of Charles Mee’s “Hotel Cassiopeia,” directed by Morgan Greene, a sophomore theatre arts/theatre major from Garfield Heights, Ohio. “Hotel Cassiopeia” follows American collage artist Joseph Cornell, whose life and style of art inspire the theme of the play. Using Cornell’s diaries, letters, and taste in music and movies, Mee based the characters in the play on people Cornell knew, observed or dreamed about.

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Gone but not forgotten

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, March 17, 2012

Main Street Ada has lost a old friend this week. The First United Methodist Church building,destroyed by fire is being razed.

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Hello, Ada, we're the newest guy on the block

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, March 15, 2012

Greeting from Ada,Ohio! Welcome to The Ada Icon. We are the newest guy in town. Please have patience while we add features to our website. Soon you'll find advertising, lots more classified ads (and they are all free!), additional photos and new stories added daily. Other things to watch for include an Ada Icon Facebook page, plus lots more. Do you have a story idea? Send it to us. Tell your friends about us.

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