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Agnes Crates, life-long Ada resident, thought she was going to present the invocation at Monday’s Town and Gown Banquet.

WATCH THE VIDEO OF HER ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

She did deliver it, but unknown to her, the community had bigger plans. Mrs. Crates was bestowed the honor of 2013 Ada citizen of year during the banquet.

She joins an impressive list of Ada residents who have received this honor over the past 48 years.

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By Alisa Ambrecht
Who Am I? Here's another Ada resident who you know, but have to put all the pieces together to figure out his identity. Here's some clues. Watch for the answer later this week.

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How about one last look at this year's Ada Kiwanis Club Halloween parade. Here's a video that the Icon posted today. It's a walk-through of the Halloween contest judging area. Are you in this video?

CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO.

Who is the scariest, most original, cutiest...you know...Halloweener in Ada this week? Well, according to the Ada Kiwanis Club, here's the results from juding from Monday night's Kiwanis Halloween parade.

The club said that 110 children and two adults participated in this year's contest.

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The Ada High School Marching Band traveled to central Ohio to compete in two separate competitions on Saturday. 

The band departed Ada early Saturday morning and traveled to Carroll to compete in the Bloom-Carroll High School BC Classic. Despite cold, windy conditions, the band placed third and received an overall rating of Excellent. In addition, the Color Guard and Percussion earned top honors in Class C.

Following the awards ceremonies at Bloom-Carroll, the band loaded their instruments and equipment and traveled to Dresden to compete in the Tri-Valley Band Classic, hosted by Tr-Valley High School. 

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The winner of Week 9 of the Icon Football Contest is Seth Burkholder. Seth and Nancy Armour correctly picked 13 games this week.  Neither picked the correct point spread in either tie-breaker (though Seth was closest) and Seth submit his entry first. 

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Here is the Ada Schools 2013-2014 honor roll for the first nine weeks:

ALL A HONOR ROLL
12th Grade: Sa'ed Al-Olimat, Brittney Archer, Jessica Hill, Joshua Lehsten, Annabel Pinkney, Elijah Rayl, Matthew Wilcox.

11th Grade: Alexis Amburgey, Noah Beach, Molly Gamble, Allison Howard, Caralee Stover, Victoria Wyss.

10th Grade: Benjamin Bowers, Alexandra Boyadzhiev, Rylan Hissong, Megan Simon, Katelyn Stuart, Kylelyn Stuart, Ashley Sumner, Casey Swick, Michael Willeke, Mackenzie Wills.

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