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COVID testing and booster guidance

Posted by Paula Scott on Monday, January 3, 2022

Blanchard Valley Health System, including Bluffton Hospital, has issued the following COVID testing and vaccine guidance with the goal of keeping patients and associates safe.

It answers the questions 1) When is it best to test? and 2) Why are booster shots important?

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Youth soccer registration through Jan. 31

Posted by Paula Scott on Monday, January 3, 2022

Ada youth soccer registration is open through January 31. Organizers have provided the following reminders:

- If your child played this past fall season, you can log into the account you set up and just renew them for the spring season.

- If your child will be playing U6 soccer, please select the t-shirt option and size. 

- Due to the jersey style being discontinued for U8 and up, teams are changing jerseys. Players are not required to purchase the new style.

- U6 soccer is open to players 4 years old at the time of registration.

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Ada chamber elects new board members

Posted by Paula Scott on Monday, January 3, 2022

The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce elected new Board of Directors members at its December 2021 meeting and announced that it has reached its goal of attracting more than 100 members.

 

New Board Members

Ric Johnson of CAPS Builder

Lisa Pohlman of US Bank

Gary Wallberg of Liberty Financial Services

Dylan Wood of Ohio Northern University

 

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Sam D. Nixon worked for Stoops Freightliner

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, January 2, 2022

Sam D. Nixon, age 51, passed away on Thursday, December 30, 2021, at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.

He was born on September 20, 1970, in Lima, Ohio to the late Leo R. and Alice M. (Avery) Nixon.             

Sam is survived by a fiancé, Diana Schroeder of Lima; a brother, Walter (Penny) Nixon of Hamilton; and a sister, Retta (Tony) Spencer of Alger.

He was preceded in death by his sister, Jean Thomas.

Sam previously worked as a parts salesman for Stoops Freightliner.   

Private family services will be held at a later date.

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Save it for a rainy day

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, January 2, 2022

When the Icon editor took this photo on the ONU campus in November, the plan was to "save it for a rainy day." Today's the day, though it may just be cloudy.

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Book Review: Blind Tiger

By Robert McCool
Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, January 2, 2022

In her twenty-sixth novel Sandra Brown takes us back to Prohibition era Texas in order to present an ambitious story about a couple bound to come together over illegal whiskey making. It is also about 1920s societal norms for women.

Blind Tiger  (Grand Central Publishing, Hatchette Book Group; ISBN 978-1-5387-5196) is a big five-course dinner that fills you completely up and satisfies your appetite for action and romance. Really, it is a big book with room for each character's development into a fully fleshed human with a human's desires and drives.

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