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It's time to start thinking about back-to-school. Several lists are now on the Icon.

These include the elmentary class supply list, elementary and high school class fee list and the school emergency medical form.

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Happy reading and safe travels. Here’s a neat idea from The Inn at ONU.

The Inn staff invites Icon viewers to “share a book” at the Inn.

Here’s how it works:

• Choose a favorite book in great condition and in a genre fascinating, riveting and memorable to you.

• Share it with others by donating the book to The Inn’s Share-A-Book library collection.

• Book donors will receive a bookplate with room to write the reasons the donor choose the book.

• Donors will also received 10 percent off at Pub dining at The Inn (excluding alcohol).

Check-out guidelines for guests at The Inn:

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The Northwest Ohio Lunachix 16U fastpitch travel softball team is holding try-outs for the 2016 season on Sunday, Aug 16 (rain date: Sunday, Aug 23) from 1-3 p.m. at the Bluffton village park.

For more information, call or text Brad Prater at 419-234-1206 or email [email protected].
 

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It's late July and people are mowing lawns in Ada? There must have been a ton of rain earlier this month. Usually by now lawns are dried up. But we know better, right?  Here's a typical lawn-mowing scene this week in Ada. This scene is from the Ada park.

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By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern University has partnered with Global Football, the Air National Guard, the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade and the Serbian Ministry of Youth and Sport to help with the growth of American football in Serbia.

Six schools from Ohio and Iowa sent equipment to Ohio Northern, which was then combined with ONU's donations and transported to the Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard base on Tuesday.

It will be shipped on a KC-135 cargo plane on Saturday and will land in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday.

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Popcorn chicken with barbecue sauce, nutrition bar, mash potatoes with gravy, side kicks and milk.

The above is a serious sign that the 2015-16 school year is getting closer. The list is the menu for opening day of Ada schools for Monday, Aug. 24.

The entire August school menu is now available. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE AUGUST MENU.

Here's this year's prices: 
Breakfast
for K-12 $1.25 
Reduced 30 cents

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