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So, you think you know Ada?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 24, 2020

So, you think you know Ada? Okay, where is this? Our only hint is that it is part of "forgotten Ada." Answer tomorrow.

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Here's last week's Icon poll results

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 23, 2020

Here's last week's Icon poll results. Take this week's poll asking about your Thanksgiving plans as they relate to covid-19.

Click here to take this week's poll.

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Monday's blood drive from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, November 22, 2020

Ada's next American Red Cross blood drive is from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 23, in the Community Health Professionals Ada Visiting Nurses conference room, 1200 S. Main St.

"There is a special need for blood type "O" at the moment," she said."There are six Power Red time slots open at the Ada drive. If you are a previous Power Red donor or if you have type O blood, please click here.

Face coverings are required at this blood donation.

Donors who fill out rapid pass save time at the donation site. Click here for rapid pass information.

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Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad plans $9 million upgrade

The line through Ada will upgrade its Lima rail yard
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, November 22, 2020

The freight railroad that passes through Ada will begin a multi-million dollar update in its Lima rail yard.

The Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE) will receive $462,000 to match $4,358,547 of its own funding and a $4,530,546 grant to assist with upgrades in the Lima Yard and on approximately 11 miles of track from Lima to north-central Indiana.

The announcement was made at the Nov. 18 meeting of the Ohio Rail Development Commission.

CFE was among four grants the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) approved.

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Remote learning will continue in Ada through Dec. 4

School will continue to deliver meals weekly
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, November 22, 2020

Ada schools will continue in its remote learning mode through Friday, Dec. 4, according to an announcement made Friday on the school website by Meri Skilliter, superintendent.

The remote learning mode will be reassessed in early December. The announcement from the school website follows: 

Dear Bulldog Community,
After three weeks of remote learning, the state, the county, our community, and our school community are still experiencing a rise in the number of Covid cases and quarantines. 

We very much have as a goal to get our students back to in-person learning as soon as we are safely able. 

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ONU students take an early break for the holidays

Cumulative positive covid-19 cases - active and recovered - at 80
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, November 20, 2020

ONU on break – See how covid-19 affected the campus this fall in the graphs below -

Ohio Northern University students left campus today for a long break between the fall and spring semesters.

As covid-19 changed many patterns in Ada this fall, one of those changes was to the Ohio Northern University calendar. In it, the seminar started in early August and ended today, Nov. 20.

 The revised calendar is one way in which the university is following guidance from the CDC regarding the coronavirus. 

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