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Ada Full Gospel Church VBS July 27-30

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Ada Full Gospel Church, 1047 State Route 235, Ada, will hold its Vacation Bible School from Monday, July 27 to Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. The VBS is for youth ages 3 to teens.

VBS planners say: "Grab your expedition gear and prepare for Journey Off the Map! Come join us as we discover truths about Jesus-the Ultimate Guide! Kids will enter the Worship Rally at Overlook and make their first stop in the  Tangled Branch Tree House for Bible study.

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ONU professor, student awarded Best Paper, Third Place at Engineering Education conferen

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Dr. John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University professor of computer engineering and computer science, and ONU student David Reeping, a senior in engineering education from Richfield, Ohio, were recipients of the Best Paper Award, Third Place, from the First-Year Programs Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) during the 122nd ASEE Annual Conference held June 14-17 in Seattle, Wash.

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45 pennant races ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Here are the Ada boys of summer during the 1969-70 baseball season. That's 45 pennant races ago. Names of the players are under the photo.

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Seeing the light

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Here's a new window in Ada. It's a portion of the window facing Main Street from the First United Methodist Church.

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Orange Township pig farm is a surprise to neighbors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Story and photo by Amy Eddings

The stereotype of country living is that everyone knows everyone else’s business. That didn’t hold true for neighbors of a new pig barn being built in Hancock County, less than a quarter mile from Hardin County resident Liz Vogt.

“I walk their creek,” she said of the Daft family farm. “I saw that [crews] were digging. I thought I’d go up and see what they were doing. I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if they were building a new barn."

That thought quickly vanished when Vogt learned from construction workers that Bo Daft was indeed building a new barn — a pig barn — for up to 2,500 pigs.

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Here it comes again - watch those skies today

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio 
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.

Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.

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