We’ve all watched Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Eli Garmon, Ada High School grad, gets to experience it first-hand this weekend in the University of Findlay’s Theatre Program’s radio play version of the Frank Capra holiday classic.
The Ada grad plays the leading role of George Bailey and Young George and you may watch the production free as it is livestreamed via Broadway on Demand. Showtimes are Friday, Nov. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m.
The weekend performance is inspired by Capra’s film. The Findlay production takes place in the following setting:
The Ada soybean harvest is nearly completed. Now farmers have turned to corn. Here's a harvest scene from Nov. 11 on the northwest corner of Township Road 25 and State Route 81, north of Ada.
NOTE: THIS STORY WAS UPDATED AT 3 P.M. ON THURSDAY.
THE EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS.
A downtown clue hunt is in store for girls interested in Girl Scouting in Ada on Saturday, Nov. 14, will not take place. Watch the Icon for further updates.
In a statewide address to Ohioans Wednesday evening, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called on citizens to recommit to their individual efforts to prevent coronavirus spread as Ohio moves through its most intense, widespread, and dangerous surge of cases to date.
Ohio is currently facing a record number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations and intensive care admissions, with nearly 3,000 people in the hospital, including more than 700 people in the ICU. During the first week of November alone, 104 Ohioans infected with the coronavirus died.
By Tim Glon
Sophomore Billy Driemeyer (House Springs, Mo./Lindbergh) and junior Taylor Ellerbrock (Columbus Grove) won the men's and women's 5,000-meter races on Friday night under the lights at Kerscher Stadium.
The victories also propelled the two to the men's and women's titles for the 6-race Polar Bear Grand Prix Series, a group of intrasquad races contested by the Ohio Northern cross country teams this fall.
Dreimeyer won the men's 5k race in 15:09 and Ellerbrock won the women's 5k race in 18:03.
There’s a new blue and white diesel in town and it's beginning to make its presence known.
It’s the Ada Liberty Township new 2020 EMS ambulance, and it replaces a 2010 International that has served the community very well for the past decade, according to Tom Miller, EMS chief.
Built on a Ford chassis, the new ambulance was customer built to Ada EMS specifications by Braun Custom Ambulances of Van Wert.
The vehicle arrived in Ada near the end of September and after a one to two week equipment transfer it began service in early October.
