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Ada schools will reopen Jan. 4 using December's model

Will communicate mid-to-late week of Jan. 13-15 about the plan going forward
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 3, 2021

Here's a reminder from Ada schools on how school will operate starting with the new year. This is part of a message posted on the school website on Dec. 18.

Ada students will to return on Monday, Jan. 4, on the same hybrid model we have been using for the last two weeks. 

We plan to operate on that plan for two weeks. There is some concern that holiday gatherings could cause a surge in cases. This plan will allow us to continue to distance students from one another to minimize spread and large numbers of quarantines, should we have cases arise. 

We should have an idea if there is a surge within about 10 days after the holidays (the last being New Year's).

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2020: The year Ada wore a mask

Here's 12 photos from each month of the year most would like to forget
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

How will you remember 2020? (Or, won’t want to remember 2020)

Let us count the ways:
• Covid-19
• Masks, or un-masked
• School year disruptions
• Cancellation of most community events
• Swimming pool opens!
• School in session, then remote, then back in session
• Presidential election
• Limited holiday travel

No matter how you will remember 2020, the Icon joins you in the hope that 2021 will be a better year.

Before we change calendars, the Icon offers 12 photographs from Ada’s 2020, one for each month.

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Special council meeting today

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Ada council will hold a special meeting Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 4:30 p.m. The meeting is in the municipal building.

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Consolidated Life Flight Network introduced in 2021

Bluffton Airport continues as one of Mercy Health's four bases in the new network
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

2019 saw 406
Life Flights from
Bluffton + 19 ground transports

FROM BLUFFTON ICON - On Feb 1, 2021, Mercy Health will introduce a consolidated Life Flight Network to handle its air and ground transportation services.

The Bluffton Airport is home to one of the four Mercy Health Life Flight bases involved in the new network. Other bases include a mobile ICU base, plus air bases in Wauseon and Sandusky.

The Life Flight Network will combine and coordinate existing air services of Life Flight, which provides medical transportation services, including critical care transport, with ground medical transportation services provided by LACP and LifeStar.

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Christmas greetings from Bluffton to Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Here's the fourth in a series of Ada-Bluffton Icon Christmas picture exchanges.

Each day until Dec. 31 on Ada Icon we'll post a holiday lights photo from our neighbor community of Bluffton. And, as a small inset, you'll see the photo from Ada that is posted on Bluffton Icon.

In this installment, the larger photo shows the holiday window art on Luke's, Main Street, Bluffton. The inset shows one of Ada's residential lawn displays, now posted on the Bluffton Icon.

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So, you think you know Ada? The answer

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 30, 2020

So, you think you know Ada? You'll find these objects on the grandfather's clock in the Ada Public Library reading room.

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