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Ada's Community Garden looking good after HOBY volunteers do their thing

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 11, 2012

June 9 was another picture-perfect Saturday. A work crew of a dozen volunteers, gardeners, and coordinators gathered at the 121 S. Johnson St. community garden to add compost to the garden beds, clean up hedge rows around the perimeter, and repaint a table for the deck.

Upon learning that a group of high school students would be available to serve in Ada on June 9, Joan Zachariah - ReStore Community Center’s Village Garden Coordinator - worked with former coordinator and current AmeriCorps VISTA member serving at ReStore, Julie Brewer, to plan for a workday.

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An Ada "Decoration Day"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 11, 2012

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Memorial Day was once known as "Decoration Day." Here's  a photograph depicting an Ada Decoration Day at the turn of an earlier century. 

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Jonathan Lewis, Ada McDonald's manager, "has ketchup in his veins"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 11, 2012

By Jake Dowling, Ada Icon intern
“They say that we have ketchup in our veins.” That is how Jonathan Lewis, manager of McDonald’s in Ada describes his family’s involvement with quarter pounders and Big Macs.

“It has always been a passion of mine to work for the McDonald’s family,” he says.
Lewis, a 2007 graduate of Bluffton High School, and spring 2011 graduate at Miami (Ohio) with a bachelor’s in finance, has always been a part of the McDonald’s family.

Ever since he was in high school, Lewis was a crew member in Beaverdam and remained a crew member when he went to college.

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Red hot poker season

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 11, 2012

The red hot pokers  (Kniphofia Uvaria) are now in bloom in the depot park on Main Street.  The bright flowers stand in contrast to the red caboose behind the flower bed.

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Three Distinguished Alumni recognized by ONU

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Alumni Association of Ohio Northern University presented Distinguished Alumni Awards during the Alumni Awards Banquet eariler this month.

The awards, recognizing outstanding service and loyalty, were presented to Karen P. (Casper) Condeni, JoAnne (Griffith) Lipski, and Michael Chow. The banquet was part of Northern’s 2012 Alumni Weekend, held June 1-3.

Karen P. (Casper) Condeni

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Sky gazing in Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, June 8, 2012

The Ada Public Library and Ohio Northern will be partnering to bring Summer Reading Club members an astronomy program at the Ohio Northern Observatory. Dr. Pinkney, professor of Astronomy, will provide a tour of the observatory and talk about being an astronomer.  Participants will also view sunspots through the telescopes, weather permitting.The event is from 3 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, June 12, at the ONU Observatory.

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