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Dreaming of past Christmases - I usually end up in the Lima Public Square

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, December 23, 2012

Don’t’ know what it is – Eartha Kitt asking for a ’54 convertible, too, light blue, or, Perry Como claiming he met a man from Tennessee going to Pennsylvania for some home made pumpkin pie.

Whatever the tune, when I hear it my mind goes in fast reverse, landing somewhere in late December between 1956 and ’60.

Suddenly I am in elementary school, standing in the downtown Lima Public Square on the final Saturday before Christmas. The place is packed; the word “mall” is not yet in our vocabulary.

This trip occurs often this time of year, thanks to Eartha, Perry and other  Christmas vocalists from the pre-Beatle era.

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Here comes Santa

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 21, 2012

Santa's coming soon. But, as you can see,  he's currently at New Leaf Lawn and Garden Supply on State Route 235. 

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Ada Icon enhances high school sports coverage; adds NWC website to home page

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 21, 2012

The Ada Icon has enhanced its high school sports coverage this week. The Icon now offers a link to the Northwest Conference league website. The site is easily accessible on the bottom left of the Icon home page.

The site includes up-to-the-day coverage of all NWC teams, scores, league standings and links to several other area league websites.

In addition it provides historical data and stats from the individual Northwest Conference schools. Click here to view the website, or find the NWC logo on the bottom left of the home page.

Teams in the Northwest Conference follow:

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Long night? Winter solstice Friday Dec. 21

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Friday, December 21, 2012

If the North Pole were your head and the South Pole your feet, today your head would be too cold and your feet too warm.   That's a metaphor for the axial tilt of the earth on this day, with all of us north of the equator experiencing our shortest winter day and everyone south the longest summer day.

On this day you will have your longest noon shadow of the year. Assuming any sun comes out at all today.  After today daylight in our hemisphere increases faster the farther north you are.

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The guy who taught me everything I know - my brother - just turned 70!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Note: This was originally posted on The Blufton Icon (Ada's sister publication) www.blufftonicon.com. We thought that anyone whose brother has turned 70 may appreciate this.

Sorry, can’t recall my first-ever meeting with Abraham Rudolf Steiner. Probably because of a focus on the larger question: “How did I get here?”

I do know it was Nov. 9, 1949. Thanks to my baby book, the roll of visitors on my first day in Bluffton includes the name “A.R.” Steiner.

He was 7; I had yet to experience my first-ever sundown.

A.R.  claims he can’t remember our first meeting either, so, I don’t feel that bad.

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The Holy Family

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus are on their way to Egypt to escape Harod. This Christmas figurine is part of the Winter Wonderland light show at the Ada Park.

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