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Northern visitors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 4, 2015

Ada's winter wildlife includes a large flock of Canada Geese, who like to hang out on the ONU campus.

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2014 weather summary: Let's not have a repeat

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 4, 2015

2014 will be remembered for several things, but the thing most area residents will remember is the “Winter of 2014.”

Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, provided The Icon with the 2014 summary with comparisons back to 2006.

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Free throw competition Jan. 18 in Kenton

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 4, 2015

The Knights of Columbus in Kenton will hold a free throw competition for boys and girls ages 9 to 14 at the YMCA in Kenton on  Sunday, Jan. 18.  Doors open at 1 p.m. and competition starts at 1:15 p.m. There is no cost to compete.

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Beulah Hays was active in several Ada organizations

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 4, 2015

Beulah Mae (Spar) Hays, 90, died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, at 3:15 a.m. at her residence in rural Ada, Ohio.

She was born on Oct. 21, 1924 at home in Ada, to Jesse Roy and Caroline M. (Clark) Spar who preceded her in death. On May 30, 1948, she married Ralph D. Hays and he preceded her in death on Jan. 27, 2010.

Mrs. Hays was a full time farmer’s wife and mother. She graduated from Bliss Business College in Columbus, Ohio, in accounting and then from the Lima Memorial School of Nursing through the Cadet Nurse Program. She worked as an RN at Lima Memorial Hospital and Gibbons Hospital in Celina, Ohio.

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Miniature Icon Benne Biscuits eliminate Sunday blahs

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 4, 2015

The holidays ended and a blah Sunday set in.

The only thing we can think to do in a situation like this is to bake. But what? With the Duke Ellington Orchestra playing in the background, in my attempt to inspire creativity, we blindly took one of the bread books off the shelf.

Here’s what opened: We’ll call it “Miniature Icon Benne Biscuits.”

Here’s how you get to Point Biscuit from Point A:

Turn oven to 450.

½ cup sesame seeds
2 cups white flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup vegetable oil
¾ cup milk

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Here's a thought for 2015: Make commitments, not resolutions

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 2, 2015

By Laura Finley

It’s 2015. People everywhere are making resolutions…lose weight, read more, quit smoking, etc. To resolve is the act of finding an answer or solution to a problem.

Yet most of our resolutions are never achieved. According to Marti Hope Gonzales, Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, just six weeks after making a resolution, 80 percent of people either have broken them or cannot even recall what they resolved. And of course, we feel like losers when we don’t achieve these goals.

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