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Autumn - let's enjoy it while it hangs around

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 19, 2015

Kenneth Collins captures autumn for Icon viewers before some of these familar sights fade into winter.

He provides:

• bumble bee on a flower
• grasshopper on a mum
• Squirrel storing nuts for winter
• Blue Jay - could be in your own back yard

  

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12 more Icon Facebook Friends and we have 1,000! - we are celebrating with some prizes

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 19, 2015

Can you believe it?

The Ada Icon has 988 Facebook friends. We use it daily to attrace viewers to our site.

With 12 Friends to go to reach 1,000 it's time for a contest.

Here's how it works and here's what four viewers will win.(We suggest you hurry to "Friend" us because we add about 15 friends a week. So, timing is important.)

• To our 1,000th Facebook Friend - we'll give you two free cups of coffee plus two Ada Icon cinnamon buns at Northern on Main. (The idea is that you celebrate with a friend.)

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Ada Youth Wrestling Club sign up Tuesday evening

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 19, 2015

The Ada Youth Wrestling Club will hold wrestling sign-ups on Tuesday, Oct. 20, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Ada school cafeteria. The first sign-up day was Oct. 18, according to John McClain, coach.

The club is open to youth from Kindergarten through sixth grade. All experience levels from beginner to advanced are invited to participate. The club accepts boys and girls from Ada and all surrounding communities.

The Ada club is member of the Miami Valley Kids Wrestling Association (MVKWA), Dayton. Over 70 clubs are in the association and participate in weekly tournaments from December through February.

For more information contact McClain at 567-371-2953.

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ONU dedicates newly renovated track-field-soccer complex as Kerscher Stadium

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 19, 2015

Ohio Northern University dedicated the newly renovated track and field and soccer complex as “Kerscher Stadium” during a ceremony prior to the ONU women’s soccer game against Capital University on Oct. 17.

The stadium is named in honor of Robert Kerscher and his wife, Barbara Kerscher. Robert Kerscher, a member of the ONU Board of Trustees, is the founder, retired chair and chief executive officer of Lexi-Comp Inc., an Ohio-based medical publisher.

He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ohio Northern in 1970 and his MBA from Baldwin Wallace University in 1978. He received an honorary degree from ONU in 2014.

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$1,000 reward for stolen Yamaha

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 19, 2015

Stolen 2005 Yamaha R1
This vehicle was taken from a garage on Lehr Avenue, Ada, sometime between Saturday night to Sunday morning, Oct. 17-18.

It is silver with red around the rims. Reward; $1,000. Persons with information contact Kelly Bolin, 567-825-2217.

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Lincolnview takes NWC cross country title

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 19, 2015

Lincolnview swept the team championships meet run Saturday morning in Van Wert.  Columbus Grove finished second in both races with Crestview finishing third.  Lincolnview's teams also won in both the boys' and girls' junior high races.

CLICK HERE FOR ENTIRE MEET RESULTS

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