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Where will you find this fashionable gentleman wearing the Icon cap?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, March 17, 2017

This fashionable gentleman, well call him Fred, is sporting an Ada Icon cap.

The challenge, dear reader, is to guess where you'll find him.

Hint: you'll see him inside a business on South Main.

Answer. Fred helps keep store with Ruth Roider at Gallery for the Arts. Ruth won the Ada Icon cap at a recent Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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Viewers invited to take Ada Icon survey

Will assist in improving Icon website
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 13, 2017

Survey designed by William Allen White
School of Journalism and Mass
Communications, University of Kansas

The Ada Icon, in cooperation with the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas, invites Icon viewers to participate in a viewer survey.

The survey, designed by the School of Journalism, will assist the Icon in improving its website. It also assists the School of Journalism in its own study of web-based news sources.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE SURVEY

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Cheerleader Don

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, March 12, 2017

"Give me a B...an E...an A...an R...an S...what does that spell? BEARS!"

Don Traxler, retired education prof and former mayor, leads cheers at the basketball game on Saturday at King-Horn.

The Lady Bears are without cheerleaders, so Don took it upon himself to get the crowd vocally behind the local team during their Elite 8 game. He attends many athletic contests at ONU throughout the year. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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This Bulldog is a local favorite

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, March 5, 2017

Local favorite Tori Wyss (left) greets teammates when the starting lineup was announced during the tourney game on Saturday night at the ONU Sports Center.

Tori scored four points in a lopsided win over Lakeland. Tori, an Ada High School grad, is a 5-10 forward who gets a lot of playtime in as a sophomore. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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The founding of the Ada Kiwanis Club 93 years ago

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, March 2, 2017

Jon Umphress described the founding of the Ada Kiwanis Club 93 years ago when he spoke at the club's regular meeting this week. He noted that the occasion included a parade through the business district and the members receiving keys to the village from the mayor.

Here is Jon's account of his talk:​

The club received its charter from Kiwanis International on this date in 1924. 

Barton F. Snyder, a charter member of the club and editor of The Ada Herald, noted the following narrative in the Jan. 15 issue of the newspaper. 

"The Ada Kiwanis Club came into being at a preliminary meeting held in the University Cafeteria on Tuesday evening January 8, 1924. 

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One...two...pick up sticks

March came in like a lion with a straight line wind gusts
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, March 2, 2017

By Monty Siekerman
March came in like a lion with a straight line wind gusts in Ada of about 60 mph at 3 a.m. on March 1. Hopefully, the month will go out like a lamb..as the old weather saying goes.

Why lions and lambs?

The lion, king of beasts, and gentle lambs are contrasts...much like March weather with fierce gales, gentle breezes, pelting rains, to soft mists...a time of transition from winter to spring....welcome to Ohio.

Pictured: Village employees gathering sticks from roadways Wednesday morning. Ada dodge a bullet with no serious problems from the strong winds. Several neighboring towns had some power outages.

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