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Here's a thought for 2015: Make commitments, not resolutions

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 2, 2015

By Laura Finley

It’s 2015. People everywhere are making resolutions…lose weight, read more, quit smoking, etc. To resolve is the act of finding an answer or solution to a problem.

Yet most of our resolutions are never achieved. According to Marti Hope Gonzales, Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, just six weeks after making a resolution, 80 percent of people either have broken them or cannot even recall what they resolved. And of course, we feel like losers when we don’t achieve these goals.

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2015 chamber officers

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 2, 2015

Here are the 2015 Ada Area Chamber of Commerce officers, from left, David Dellifield, vice president; Deb Curlis, president and Corsie Arn, secretary.

 

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39 seasons ago on the hard court

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 1, 2015

Check out those uniforms! Here's the Ada High School girls' basketball team of 39 seasons ago  - the year is 1975-76.

Open the photo to view the players' names. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE.

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Happy new year's per gallon

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 1, 2015

Here's a great way to start 2015 - with gas prices at $1.95.9 per gallon. That means it costs under $30 to fill a 15-gallon tank. When gas was $3.95 per gallon, for example, it cost nearly $60 to fill a 15-gallon tank.

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Ada Icon experienced over 60,000 views from over 25,000 individuals in 2014

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 1, 2015

In 2014 the Ada Icon had 60,558 total visits from 26,975 individuals, according to Google Analytics.

The vast majority were from Ada-Kenton-Lima-Bluffton-Findlay, reaching over 6,000 viewers. Here are some of the additional stats on the Icon in 2014:

60,558 total visits
120,018 total page visits
26,975 individual visits
1:27 average time on the site per visit

3,432 total visits to classified page
3,573 total visits to news page
2,082 total visits to obituaries page
1,466 total visits to photo gallery

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Take the Icon's 2014 New Year' Eve Quiz

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Plans for New Year’s Eve?

Why not dazzle your party (or yourself) by testing your knowledge of Ada? To do so, we present the Ada Icon 2014 New Year’s Eve Quiz.

Here’s how it works. Here are 15 questions about Ada worth 45 points. Answers are based events of  2014. The correct answers are below our quiz, so you may grade yourself, but it’s totally the honor system.

Some questions are easy, some take some thinking and others are downright stinkers.

Of course, the stinkers are worth more points than others due to the skill level required to answer them correctly.

Here’s the scoring system:

40 to 45 points – Ada genius

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