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University presents faculty recital, special guest featuring chamber music

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents an evening of chamber music in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building on Monday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The program will feature Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Tempest Fantasy for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.

ONU faculty clarinetist Georg Klaas and colleagues will perform a program of 20th- and 21st-entury chamber music. The program will feature Pamela Ashmore, lecturer in the ONU music department, on piano; Rachel Pinkney, lecturer in the ONU music department, on cello; and special guest violinist from the Toledo Symphony, Merwin Siu.

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Weather summary - starting to feel like autumn

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, September 23, 2014

It’s starting to feel like autumn. Here’s the September daily weather summaries from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

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Get your pot holders here!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A young Ada entrepreneur and Boy Scout works the scout stand at the Ada Harvest and Herb Fesitval last Saturday.

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2011 Honda Pilot ELX Kirtland's manager's special

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Jim Kinn, manager of Kirtland's Auto Sales, 302 S., Main St., Bluffton, announces a new manager's special.

The vehicle is a 2011 Honda Pilot ELX listed at $24,995. For complete details on the special open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

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John Acheson was a Roundhead High School graduate

Posted by Paula Scott on Tuesday, September 23, 2014

John G. Acheson, 80, died at 12:37 a.m. on Sunday, September 21, 2014 at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima, Ohio.

He was born on June 3, 1934 in Auglaize County, Ohio to Harold and Verla (Shipp) Acheson, who preceded him in death. On September 24, 1955 he married Margaret Crowe and she survives in Ada, Ohio.

John retired from Chicago Bridge and Iron after 30 years as a welder. He was a member of the Lima Masonic Lodge #205 F&AM. He was a 1952 graduate of Roundhead High School. John served in the US Air Force from 1954-1958. He was a member of the Bethel Church of Christ, Ada, Ohio.

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There's still time to be an Ada Music Booster - patron drive continues

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, September 22, 2014

The annual membership drive for the Ada Music Boosters is continuing throughout the fall. 

A flyer was mailed to all Ada households in July and the boosters encourage Icon viewers to return it with a contribution towards this year’s fund-raising drive. With the help of the Ada community, the music boosters are able to enhance music education and the performance-based programming for the Ada Exempted Village Schools.

Here's an update on booster project from David Smittle, Music Booster treasurer:

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