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Hardin County rainfall report for May 2022

Posted by Staff on Monday, June 20, 2022

By Mark Badertscher
Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, Hardin County Extension

HARDIN COUNTY–For the period of May 1-May 31, Extension rainfall reporters recorded an average of 5.41 inches of rain in Hardin County. Last year, the average rainfall for the same time was 4.08 inches. Rainfall for May was 1.38 inches more than the ten-year average rainfall for the month.

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Save the date: July 3 Pride of Ada Fireworks

Posted by Paula Scott on Monday, June 20, 2022

The 2nd Annual Pride of Ada Fireworks show will begin at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, 2022 at the Ada baseball fields at the eastern end of Ada War Memorial Park.

Fireworks are particularly expensive this year, but local enthusiasm wasn't diminished, according to coordinator Ann Donnelly Hamilton. "We asked business after business to consider giving 'any amount' and we would just keep going until it was covered," she told the Icon.

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Book Review: Two Gabriel Du Pre' novels by Peter Bowen

Posted by Staff on Sunday, June 19, 2022

By Robert McCool, Icon columnist

Welcome to the new Old West and a colorful cowboy and sometime deputy.

Life in Toussaint, Montana is all but disappeared. The Me'tis Indian people cling to their old ways while outsiders move into the area by the Wolf Mountains and bring their own problems to the town of five hundred survivors in this modern world.

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Father’s Day inspiration

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, June 19, 2022

By Paula Scott

Father’s Day shouldn’t pass without a mention in the Icons. I’m sorry to say that Mother’s Day 2022 passed without note on our Bluffton site, while Ada received a shopping countdown. Indeed, gifts and meals are often how we lavish love on family members. In my own family, Mother’s Day has been squeezed in between countless soccer tournaments and graduations, while Father’s Day in June seems a bit more leisurely.

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Chamber takeaway: Who painted The Depot?

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, June 19, 2022

From the June meeting of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, the Icon has this takeaway: We have Surface Solution Painting of Dunkirk to thank for the paint work on Ada's 1887 passenger depot.

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Gator boys best Wapak at home meet

Posted by Staff on Saturday, June 18, 2022

Story and photos by Cort Reynolds

The Ada boys summer swim team defeated visiting Wapakoneta on a hot and hazy Thursday night, June 16, in West Ohio Aquatic League action at the municipal pool.

The Alligator boys dunked Wapak, 209-134.

But the Waves won the girls meet 216-103, and the visitors captured the overall combined boys-girls competition by a 350-312 score. 

Olivia Aggozino (9-10 age bracket) paced the Ada girls with four individual race wins. Lily Baumgartner (15-18) won two races, as did Carly Hull (6 and under).

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