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Area Agency on Aging success story

Provided by Dre White, health education coordinator
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 30, 2020

This article was submitted by Dre White, Agency on Aging 3 Health Education Coordinator, and Ada boys' varsity basketball coach. Click here for its website.

Born and raised in Lima, Avyce has been a resident at Lochhaven Assisted Living since August of 2019. Three sons, eight grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren are her pride and joy.  The best part?  “They all live around Lima,” Avyce shared with pleasure.

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Kaylee Huffer is in the Ada HS senior spotlight

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 30, 2020

In cooperation with Ada schools, the Ada Icon will post each of the Ada High School class of 2020 seniors in the spotlight. Kaylee Huffer is today's senior in the spotlight.

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15 minutes with Courtney "CoCo" McLaughlin

She plans to enroll next fall at Ohio Northern as a music education major
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Ada High School senior, Courtney “CoCo” McLaughlin, is the May Mid-Ohio Energy Cooperative student of the month. The Icon chatted with her earlier this week. Here’s a portion of that conversation.

Icon: Tell us the classes that you are taking this spring.
CoCo: I’m taking Film and Lit, Economics, Spanish 4, Astronomy, Statistics and Varsity Singers. 

Icon: What’s your favorite class this spring?
CoCo: I really like Film and Lit. We get to create different types of films and watch movies. 

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Sidney Gossard in the Ada HS senior spotlight

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

In cooperation with Ada schools, the Ada Icon will post each of the Ada High School class of 2020 seniors in the spotlight. Sidney Gossard is today's senior in the spotlight.

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Theatre department honor to Sydney Hartford

Ada HS grad is a student scholar at Ohio State-Lima
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Ada High School graduate Sydney Hartford is among several Ohio State-Lima student scholars recognized this week for scholarly work, overall achievement and service to the campus.

She received the university’s theatre department award. Her citation follows: 

Sydney tackled her work on stage, in the classroom, and behind the scenes with equal amounts of talent, hard work, humility, intelligence and dedication. 

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There's a guy named Traxler in Ada blowing out 84 birthday candles today

Former mayor, former community cheerleader, if he isn't Mr. Ada, we don't know who is
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Ada’s favorite “Don” celebrates his 84th birthday on April 28. “Don” Traxler is at Vancrest Ada, not able to have any visitors, as Vancrest is in a lockdown. Help him celebrate by sending him an email at [email protected] or call him at 419-957-9383.

Don doesn’t remember this interview he and I had in 2004. At the time I was a freelance writer for a Ohio Democrat publication. My beat was northwestern Ohio. Don was a natural fit for this publication. The article follows with some minor updates.

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