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Meaning of Christmas

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 24, 2015

These creche figures are found in many Ada homes and churches this week. They each may have a different look, but they each represent the Christmas family. This one is in First United Methodist Church.

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Icon offers a modern version of a familiar story

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 24, 2015

The Icon offers viewers a modern version of a familiar story.

In the seventh year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Jordan was fourth district representative.

Jose from Lebanon, Ohio, with his young housekeeper, Maria, who was nine-month’s pregnant with someone else’s child, and who Jose had intended to marry, drove to Ada in Jose’s 1996 Mercury Cougar. This was because Jose was a great-great-great-grandson of Dr. H.S. Lehr, Ada pioneer and founder of Ohio Northern University.

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Merry Christmas from Ada Icon - here's your "Ada Christmas scenes of 2015"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 24, 2015

We’ve collected holiday photos from the Icon and from two Ada Facebooks.

We put the photos in a box, wrapped them in decorated paper, tied a ribbon around the box and placed the box under your tree.

Our photos are from Ken Collins, Monty Siekerman, Fred Steiner and from the Ada school Facebook and Ohio Nothern University Theatre Department Facebook.

We hope you enjoyed these holidays scenes of Ada.

Merry Christmas from the Ada Icon!

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Now this is a white Christmas in Ada - but only in your dreams

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

If you are dreaming of a white Christmas in Ada this year, better dream on.

However, if you’d like to recall what a white Christmas in Ada resembles, these two Karen Ward photos may help get you into the Christmas spirit.

After taking a look at our feature photo above – it shows Ada on the first day Christmas, taken by Ken Collins – you can compare a green Christmas with a white one.

The white Christmas photo with this feature is taken near the exact spot of the green Christmas photo above. The only different is the white photo looks north; the green photo looks south.

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What's wrong with this picture?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

It's a trick question. Nothing's actually wrong with the picture. Except, it was taken on the first day of winter 2015. Looks, and feels more like spring. That's what's wrong. Ken Collins took this photo of Main Street, Ada, looking south toward the Ada Theatre. If you want to see a more traditional winter photo of Main Street, examine Karen Ward's two photos below.

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Farmers will recall 2015 this way: Rain, rain and more rain

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

It wasn’t a good growing season for farmers with floods in late spring and a dry spell in late summer. And, crop prices were down.

TOWNSHIP RAINFALL CHART IS ATTACHED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.


Liberty Township, the area surrounding Ada, had the most rain of any township in the county with 30.38 total inches. The county average was 24.7 inches.


Here's a rainfall report for the growing season, plus some comments on this year's corn harvest, from Mark Badertscher, agriculture and natural resources extension educator:

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