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45 pennant races ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Here are the Ada boys of summer during the 1969-70 baseball season. That's 45 pennant races ago. Names of the players are under the photo.

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Seeing the light

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Here's a new window in Ada. It's a portion of the window facing Main Street from the First United Methodist Church.

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Orange Township pig farm is a surprise to neighbors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

Story and photo by Amy Eddings

The stereotype of country living is that everyone knows everyone else’s business. That didn’t hold true for neighbors of a new pig barn being built in Hancock County, less than a quarter mile from Hardin County resident Liz Vogt.

“I walk their creek,” she said of the Daft family farm. “I saw that [crews] were digging. I thought I’d go up and see what they were doing. I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if they were building a new barn."

That thought quickly vanished when Vogt learned from construction workers that Bo Daft was indeed building a new barn — a pig barn — for up to 2,500 pigs.

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Here it comes again - watch those skies today

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 22, 2015

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio 
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.

Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.

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When reading becomes a science

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, June 19, 2015

Ada Public Library summer reading program turned into a science experiment this week. Looks to us like owl pellets are being disected. We could be wrong, however.

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ReStore's floor-refinishing project has a July 4th raffle

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, June 19, 2015

ReStore has the perfect basket for the Fourth of July and all Icon viewers have a chance to win it.

The basket winner’s name will be drawn from a raffle taking place at 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 30. Tickets are on sale for $1 each at ReStore, 210 N. Main St.

Proceeds from the raffle go to the ReStore floor-refinishing project.

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