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Icon book review: Dean Koontz "Devoted"

A spine-tingling plot that keeps you turning pages to the very end of the story
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 22, 2021

Reviewed by Robert McCool
Dean Koontz devotes his latest to a remarkable boy/dog combination.

I never cared much for Dean Koontz as a horror book writer. I have found him to be tepidly spiritual, a weak Stephen King wannabe. But this latest, Devoted (ISBN 13: 978-1-4328-7662-3), grabbed me when I was looking for a quick read.

Kipp is a dog with a genetically modified human smart brain, lacking only thumbs and vocal chords in order to write or talk to humans, he communicates with a gift of telepathy to other dogs of his kind,in an organization called “the Mysterium”.

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Icon invites churches to submit Easter and Holy Week service information

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 22, 2021

The Icon invites area congregations to send their special church service information for Holy Week and Easter. 

Send information to: [email protected].

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Arlene Hopkins was a Hardin County 911 dispatcher and USV bus driver

Served on Alger EMS for 18 years
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 22, 2021

Arlene U. Hopkins, 90, passed away on Sunday, March 21, 2021, at 11:47 p.m. at MediLodge of Yale in Yale, Michigan.

She was born in Fulton, New York on July 1, 1930 to the late Howard Leslie and Hilda U. (Mitchell) VanWie.  Arlene married Robert B. Weyer and they divorced.  She then married Paul J. Hopkins and they too divorced. 

Arlene was a 911 Dispatcher for Hardin County retiring in 2003.  She also was a school bus driver for the Upper Scioto Schools, retiring in 1993.  Arlene was a member of the McGuffey Church of Christ. She was a volunteer for the Alger EMS for 18 years.           

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Discovering the world of biographies

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 22, 2021

Bi•og•ra•phy - an account of someone's life written by someone else. Students in Mrs. Kosier's second grade class recently discovered biographies. They are are now doing additional research on their own. They’ve found biographies to read in the library, the second grade class library, Epic! and on Freckle. (Photos from Ada Bulldogs Facebook)

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Look who is on the Ada school honor roll

Third quarter '20-21, 4th grade to seniors
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 22, 2021

Ada schools released its third quarter honor roll for the 2020-21 school year. It follows: 

GRADE 4

ALL A:  TEA GRIFFITH, AUBREY JORDAN, BROOKLYNN MATHEWS, ROBERT SHANKS, LYDIA SHELLHAMMER, ANDY STOCKERT, EMILY THAXTON, PIPER WALLACE AND RYAN WEST

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1972 Bulldog cross country team

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 22, 2021

Here's the 1972 Ada High School boys' cross country team - before girls' cross country and soccer became fall sports.

Coach Fries stands on the left. Names of the team members are under the photo

 

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