Bosco cheese sticks will greet Ada students for lunch on Monday. The January school menu is now posted.
Just as a reminded it’s:
Kindergarten to third grade: Monday to Friday
A – L fourth grade through 12th grade Monday and Tuesday
M – Z fourth grade through 12th grade Thursday and Friday
Here's a reminder from Ada schools on how school will operate starting with the new year. This is part of a message posted on the school website on Dec. 18.
Ada students will to return on Monday, Jan. 4, on the same hybrid model we have been using for the last two weeks.
We plan to operate on that plan for two weeks. There is some concern that holiday gatherings could cause a surge in cases. This plan will allow us to continue to distance students from one another to minimize spread and large numbers of quarantines, should we have cases arise.
We should have an idea if there is a surge within about 10 days after the holidays (the last being New Year's).
Here are some holiday figurines who prefer to remain indoors during the winter. The Icon discovered them in the stairway from the first to second floor in the Ada municipal building.
Urban L. Long, age 91, passed away at his residence in Ada on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at 11:53 a.m.
He was born on Sept. 13, 1929, in LaFayette, Ohio, to the late Charles Raymond and Donna (Shrider) Long. On June 10, 1951, he married Alma M. Moyers and she preceded him in death on July 31, 2012.
Urban was a lifelong farmer. He was a lifelong member of the County Line Church of the Brethren, Harrod, and was a former Deacon as well as served in many capacities at the church. Urban was a conscientious objector to the draft and served his service in the Brethren Volunteer Service 2nd Unit. Urban and his father donated heifers to Heifer International Service.
Ada council closed 2020 with a special meeting on Dec. 30 for the purpose of transferring funds received from the federal CARES Act to nine specific village funds.
Those transfers are shows in the attachment at the bottom of this story. The village received $341,746 in CARES Funds.
Gregory Phipps, a member of the ONU faculty, of Lima recently received a doctorate in management of technology and digital communications from the Indiana State University.
The assistant professor of communication at Ohio Northern University is a graduate from Lima Technical College and the University of Toledo’s electronic engineering programs. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Bluffton in organizational management.
His research topics include broadcast television communications and the adoption of bonded-cellular transmission technology.
