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In 2001-02 these students were a team

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 7, 2016

The Icon doesn't often offer junior high photos in its historical photo section. Here's an exception. This team won the Hardin County tournament where they were undefeated.
 

It's the 2001-2002 junior high quiz bowl team. Team members are listed clockwise: Adam Lusk, Heather Humphreys,  Travis McKinturf, Jamie Raines, Tom Shimmel, Amanda Cribley, Megan Elliott and Ethan Collins. Not pictured: Cody Wells.

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On Thursday's Freed Center stage: African Music Celebration

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 7, 2016

Ohio Northern University and the Department of Music present “African Music Celebration,” an evening of African drumming and dance led by Benjamin Obido Ayettey, professor and Fulbright visiting scholar, in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m.

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Jon Robey on Olivet Nazarene NAIA national swim championship team

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 7, 2016

Jon Robey, Ada High School grad, is a member of the Olivet Nazarene University men's swim team that won the NAIA national swim meet held this past weekend.

Robey, a sophomore, completed in the 200-yard free relay and the 100-yard fly. The Olivet men's team won the national title for the first time ever. The Olivet women's team was runner-up in the women's division.

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Dora Ann Price 1925-2016

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 7, 2016

 Dora Ann Price, 90, died on Friday, March 4, 2016, at 8:15 p.m. at her residence in Ada.

She was born on July 13, 1925 in Hardin County, Ohio to Orpha and Estella (Bailey) Clark who preceded her in death. On May 28, 1946 she married Ralph A. Price and he preceded her in death on Sept. 5, 1995.

Dora Ann was a retired secretary from the Charles VanDyne Law Office.

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Ada Teacher Feature: A chat with Kristie Steiner, art teacher

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 7, 2016

Compiled by Darlene Bowers

Welcome to the Ada Icon's "Ada Teacher Feature." Here we share thoughts and insights from local teachers who lift up and inspire our students.

Let us lift up and inspire these educators as well. Today we meet Kristie Steiner, art teacher. It was Georgia O'Keefe who said, "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

Kristie is helping our students learn to express themselves and find what interests them, too.

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Leprechaun in an Ada woods

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 7, 2016

Sometimes you find scary or unusual things in the woods. An Ada Icon camera caught a snowman shaped like a leprechaun in a woods on campus on Saturday. Will him/her last til March 17? Sadly, probably not.

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