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Letter: Volunteerism furthers the mission of non-profits

Volunteerism! Most of, if not all non-profits depend on the volunteers to further their mission. Without volunteers the Boy Scouts of America would not be able to serve millions of youth nationwide over the past 120 years with the leadership, character, citizenship and fitness training that makes youth prepared for life and the leaders of tomorrow.  

Magic Nate: 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 21

Summer Reading Program event at the park

Come to the bandshell area at Ada's War Memorial Park to see Magic Nate perform for the Ada Public Library Summer Reading program.

  • 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 21

For more program events, visit https://adalibrary.org/calendar 

Hardin County rainfall report for May 2022

By Mark Badertscher
Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, Hardin County Extension

HARDIN COUNTY–For the period of May 1-May 31, Extension rainfall reporters recorded an average of 5.41 inches of rain in Hardin County. Last year, the average rainfall for the same time was 4.08 inches. Rainfall for May was 1.38 inches more than the ten-year average rainfall for the month.

Save the date: July 3 Pride of Ada Fireworks

The 2nd Annual Pride of Ada Fireworks show will begin at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, 2022 at the Ada baseball fields at the eastern end of Ada War Memorial Park.

Fireworks are particularly expensive this year, but local enthusiasm wasn't diminished, according to coordinator Ann Donnelly Hamilton. "We asked business after business to consider giving 'any amount' and we would just keep going until it was covered," she told the Icon.

Book Review: Two Gabriel Du Pre' novels by Peter Bowen

By Robert McCool, Icon columnist

Welcome to the new Old West and a colorful cowboy and sometime deputy.

Life in Toussaint, Montana is all but disappeared. The Me'tis Indian people cling to their old ways while outsiders move into the area by the Wolf Mountains and bring their own problems to the town of five hundred survivors in this modern world.

Father’s Day inspiration

By Paula Scott

Father’s Day shouldn’t pass without a mention in the Icons. I’m sorry to say that Mother’s Day 2022 passed without note on our Bluffton site, while Ada received a shopping countdown. Indeed, gifts and meals are often how we lavish love on family members. In my own family, Mother’s Day has been squeezed in between countless soccer tournaments and graduations, while Father’s Day in June seems a bit more leisurely.

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