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Orange Township pig farm is a surprise to neighbors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Story and photo by Amy Eddings

The stereotype of country living is that everyone knows everyone else’s business. That didn’t hold true for neighbors of a new pig barn being built in Hancock County, less than a quarter mile from Hardin County resident Liz Vogt.

“I walk their creek,” she said of the Daft family farm. “I saw that [crews] were digging. I thought I’d go up and see what they were doing. I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if they were building a new barn."

That thought quickly vanished when Vogt learned from construction workers that Bo Daft was indeed building a new barn — a pig barn — for up to 2,500 pigs.

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Here it comes again - watch those skies today

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio 
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.

Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.

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When reading becomes a science

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, June 19, 2015

Ada Public Library summer reading program turned into a science experiment this week. Looks to us like owl pellets are being disected. We could be wrong, however.

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ReStore's floor-refinishing project has a July 4th raffle

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, June 19, 2015

ReStore has the perfect basket for the Fourth of July and all Icon viewers have a chance to win it.

The basket winner’s name will be drawn from a raffle taking place at 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 30. Tickets are on sale for $1 each at ReStore, 210 N. Main St.

Proceeds from the raffle go to the ReStore floor-refinishing project.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters awarded Quality Agency Award

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, June 19, 2015

Big Brothers Big Sisters of West Central Ohio has received a national Quality Agency Award, recognizing the hard work of agency leadership and staff to provide high-quality programming for area children.

This award, presented annually by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, recognizes BBBS agencies across the country that serve a minimum of 150 children and achieve certain quality markers in the length and strength of Big/Little match relationships.

Only three of 25 Ohio agencies received the Quality Agency Award.  The others are BBBS of Central Ohio in Columbus and BBBS of Greater Cincinnati.

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Northwest Ohio Diabetes Association awards scholarships to area students

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Friday, June 19, 2015

Several area students have been awarded scholarships in the amount of $500 each from the Northwest Ohio Diabetes Association. Those earning scholarship awards include:

    Nicholas Bowden – 2013 Findlay High School graduate attending The Ohio State University and majoring in actuarial science.

    Ben Davis – 2012 Tiffin Columbian High School graduate attending The Ohio State University and majoring in business.

    Katelynn Driggers – 2013 Carey High School graduate attending Bluffton University and majoring in education/Spanish.

    Phillip Farwig – 2010 Liberty-Benton High School graduate attending Ohio Northern University and majoring in pharmacy.

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