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Ada hosts big junior high track meet

Posted by Staff on Sunday, April 24, 2022

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada Schools track and field program hosted its 10-team junior high invitational meet on a sunny Thursday, April 21, at War Memorial Stadium.

Findlay Donnell won both the boys and girls team titles. The Bulldog girls finished third, while the Ada boys came in fourth.

Jordynn Smith and Anna Conley captured first places for Ada.

 

Top Ada finishers:

Girls 400 Meter Dash

1 1:07.66 Smith, Jordyn 

3 1:09.55 Madison, Alyssa 

 

Girls Shot Put

1 31-10.5 Conley, Anna

 

Girls 100 Meter Dash

2 14.39 Smith, Jordyn 

 

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Weekend Doctor: Handwashing

Posted by Staff on Sunday, April 24, 2022

By Mike Patrick, MD, Medical Director for Interactive Media, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

The year was 1846. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was working in the Vienna General Hospital when he noticed a perplexing problem. Women giving birth in the doctor-run maternity ward developed fever and died more often than women in the midwife-run maternity ward. Doctors tended to visit their wards after performing autopsies, while the midwives did not. Dr. Semmelweis wondered if “cadaverous particles” might remain on their hands. He imposed a new rule, urging doctors to wash their hands before entering the ward. Sure enough, fever and death in the doctor-run ward decreased significantly.

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David L. Cole funeral announcement

Posted by Staff on Saturday, April 23, 2022

David L. Cole, age 81, passed away on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at 9:19 a.m. at Hardin Hills Health Center.

He was born on January 17, 1941 in Alger, Ohio to the late Edward and Thelma (Mayfield) Cole.  On June 15, 1962 David married Clara E. Frasure and she preceded him in death in 2003.  He then married Violet Scott and she passed away in December of 2021.

David and Clara were foster parents for over 20 years.  He played many years of softball, had a great love of bluegrass, coon dogs and played a mean tambourine. He never knew a stranger, had a heart of gold and love for Jesus.

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Bulldog boys nipped in last at bat by Devils

Posted by Staff on Saturday, April 23, 2022

By Cort Reynolds

The visiting Ada High Schoolbaseball team gave up a run in the bottom of the seventh to lose a 6-5 nailbiter to Arlington in a non-league battle Friday evening, April 22.

Ada dropped to 4-8 overall with the close loss. Arlington improved to 5-7 with the comeback win.

The Bulldogs tied it with two runs in the top of the third, and again knotted the score with a run in the fourth. Ada took a 5-4 lead with single runs in the fifth and sixth frames.

Arlington tied it again with a run in the home half of the sixth. They then won it by plating a run in the bottom of the seventh in their last at bat.

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"Big Red" sunset on the Ada-Bluffton route

Posted by Paula Scott on Saturday, April 23, 2022

The Icon's editor likes to keep an eye out for "Big Red" on drives between the Ada Icon beat and the Bluffton Icon beat. This week a setting sun treated her to this equine outline.

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NW Ohio community to honor Francis in hockey game

FOP 109 Warthogs vs. Toledo Police Hockey
Posted by Staff on Saturday, April 23, 2022

The Cube Ice Arena in Findlay, Ohio will host the Hockey Helping Heroes initiative of the First Responder Face-Off Foundation to town on Friday, May 6. The event features a charity hockey game between the FOP 109 Warthogs vs. the Toledo Police Hockey team. Proceeds from the game benefit the family of Officer Dominic Francis of the Bluffton Police Department. Officer Francis was killed in the line of duty March 31, 2022 and was a member of the Fort Findlay FOP Lodge #20.

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