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6th grade tip off tourney team registration underway

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Bluffton Family Recreation is accepting team registrations for its sixth grade boys’ and girls’ tip-off basketball tournament held in December, according to Joseph Beagle, BFR director.

Boys’ division games are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 12. Girls’ division games are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 13. All games are played at BFR, 215 Snider Road, Bluffton.

Registration fee is $300 per team and registrations are accepted until Nov. 30.

These tournaments have an eight-team limit. Three games are guaranteed. Early rounds will be fast-paced, cross-court format.

Championship and semi-final games are played on a full court.

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Several Bulldogs received all-Northwest Conference football honors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Several Ada High School players received all Northwest Conference football honors this year.

They include on offense:

• Blake Ansley, senior, receiver, first team
• Justin Shoemaker, senior, offensive line, second team
• Coleton Lee, senior, offensive line, second team

On defense:
• Colton Lee, senior, defensive line, first team
• Chase Sumner, sophomore, defensive back, first team
• Blake Ansley, senior, linebacker, first team
• Trent Joliff, junior, specialist, first team
• Jordan Bailey, junior, linebacker, second team

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Department of Music presents men’s and women’s fall concert

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Monday, November 9, 2015

The Ohio Northern University Men’s and Women’s Choruses will perform their fall concert in the Snyder Recital Hall of Presser Hall on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.

The ONU Men’s Chorus, directed by Dr. Ben Ayling, will perform a varied selection of pieces, including “Loch Lomond,” “How Great Thou Art,” “Mary Had a Baby” and the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch tune “Johnnie Schmoker.”

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This Ada club was a secret in 1994-5

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 9, 2015

Were you an Ada HS Secret Admirer? (Will one of you please explain this club to Icon viewers.)

Here's those secret students from the 1994-95 school year.

Row one from left, T. Long and G. Lamb

Row two: C. Sharrock, D. Teeters, J. Wireman, J. Bolen, R. Wince, V. Mattson, T. Madison, M. Stahl, K. Brown, N. Bischoff.

Row 3: D. Green, J. Downing, E. Rush, C. McCurdy, C. Montgomery, C. Ludanyi, A. Reiss, Y. Driscoll, S. Westbrook, D. Teeters, K. Shadley.

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Ada's Music Feast is more than toe-tapping...it's food, too

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 9, 2015

All the music you could eat was served all day long at the 38th annual Ada Music Booster Music Feast.

With more than 2,500 spectators, performers and volunteers, it is always a day to remember in Ada. This year's feast was Nov. 7.

Icon's roving photographer, Monty Siekerman, focused on some of the "non-music" participants. Those photos with identifications follow:

CLICK HERE FOR THE WINNER LIST

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Youth at First United Methodist filling shoeboxes for a good Christmas cause; and you can assist

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, November 9, 2015

A small shoe box can have a big impact. 

Youth at First United Methodist Church, Ada, are discovering that this month by their participation in Operation Christmas Child.

The youth group at the church will collect these shoe boxes until Nov. 22. The boxes can be left at the church 'Front Porch' area (reception area in front of church).  The doors to the church are open until 4 p.m. weekly. Please enter through the back doors. 

To assist persons in filling these boxes and for specific age levels please see guidelines on the table in the Front Porch area of the church.

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