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Here's an update on Cessna Minutemen 4-H Club

Cessna Minutemen 4-H
By Jessica Breidenbach

The Cessna Minutemen met on Tuesday, June 17th.  The club was given a tour of the Van Deurzen Dairy operation near Alger. 

Members got to see the carousel milking system that is used, as well as the barns that house the over 5000 cows at the facility. Following the tour, club President, Zac Breidenbach called the meeting to order.  There were 14 members present. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Wesley Lowery and the 4-H pledge was led by Jessica Breidenbach. 

Mary Arthur was an Ohio Northern University graduate

Mary Margaret Arthur, 87, died at 1:45 p.m. June 20, 2014, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. She was born April 10, 1927, in Lima to the late Raymond and LaDonna (Williams) Zimmerman. On Dec. 21, 1947, she married Melvyn C. Arthur and he died June 12, 2014.

Mrs. Arthur was a retired teacher. She taught at Beaverdam, Moulton and Pandora-Gilboa schools. She had also worked at City Loan in Lima.  She graduated from Beaverdam High School and Ohio Northern University.

High church

Easy does it. Each day the scene changes at the construction site of Ada's First United Methodist Church.

Several Bulldogs on NWC spring scholar-athlete list

Several Ada High School athletes were named Northwest Conference Scholar Athletes for the spring sports season.  The criteria for being selected are as follows:

• Earned a varsity letter during the spring sports season.
•  Earned a minimum 3.00 GPA during the grading period of the sport.

THE ENTIRE NWC LIST IS AN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

Baseball
Slade Downing, Cory Kellum, Caleb Garmon, Connor English, Cort Everhart, Steven Gray,
Brayden Sautter, Mason Klingler.     

Here's all you need to know about the Ada pool this summer

It's summer. The Ada pool is open. Here's answers to all the questions you have about the pool this summer.

An attachement at the bottom of this story provides a list of all pool rules and regulations.

Seth Epley is this year's pool manager and Jonathan Robey is the assistant manager. The pool will be open, weather permitting daily through Aug. 10. Daily admission is $3.

Swim hours are 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. During home swim meets on June 26 and July 3 the pool will close at 4 p.m.

To review all additional services provided by the pool open the printer-friendly attachments at the bottom of this story.

June 9-15 Ada police call logs

Michael Harnishfeger, Ada police chief, provided the Icon with the Ada police call logs from June 9 to June 15. 

They are on the attachments at the bottom of this story.

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