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Top state honors...again!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Ada's Junior High Winter Guard, High School Rifle Line and High School Winter Guard teams all had great performances on March 29 at the Ohio Indoor Performance Association (OIPA)'s State Color Guard and Percussion Championships in Wapakoneta. The Junior High and High School Winter Guard teams won top honors as state champions in their respective classes. The Rifle Line placed second in their class and also had a great performance.

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Here's Ada's April-May Community Highlights - lots and lots going on in town

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

It appears to be a busy spring in Ada.

Checking the Ada Community Highlights calendar for April and May something takes place here nearly every day.

Here is Ada's events calendar featuring activities open to the public for the next 60 days or so. An easy-to-save printer-friendly version is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

The Icon provides this calendar for the Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC). It is emailed to anyone interested in being on the calendar's mailing list. Contact [email protected] to be added to the calendar.

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Let the artistry begin: Check out these nails!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

By Darlene Bowers

A little girl growing up in Bowling Green, Ohio, loved to go to Woolworth’s with her mother. Even more she loved to save her coins to purchase with great delight a little package of glue-on fingernails that could be painted in an array of colors. “I’ve always had a fetish for pretty fingernails. I don’t know why,” recalls Jane Lee, a resident of Ada for 44 years.

Jane’s fingernail obsession continued as she grew up, married Ted Lee and together raised two sons. Jane and Ted also now have four grandchildren ranging from 5th grade through 10th grade and a 7-year-old yellow tiger cat named Chub.

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Winter Guard teams: Fifth consecutive high school state title; second consecutive junior high state title

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Under the direction of Amy Webb and Jonathan Lischak, Ada's Junior High Winter Guard, High School Rifle Line and High School Winter Guard teams all had great performances  March 29 at the Ohio Indoor Performance Association (OIPA)'s State Color Guard and Percussion Championships in Wapakoneta.

JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL TEAM PHOTOS BELOW.

Approximately 70 winter guard and percussion groups from around Ohio competed in the event. The Junior High and High School Winter Guard teams won top honors as state champions in their respective classes.

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Ohio Northern University’s Department of English closes Spring Reading Series with poet Roger Reeves

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Department of English closes its 2014 Spring Reading Series with poet Roger Reeves in the Elzay Gallery of Art on Wednesday, April 2, at 7 p.m.

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Ohio Northern University’s Keiser Lecture to focus on ‘Driving Innovation and Value through Sustainability’

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Ohio Northern University will host a lecture by Scott Griffin, chief sustainability Officer at Greif Inc., in the Dicke Forum on Monday, April 14, at 7 p.m. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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