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Liberty Belles and Boys drive-thru food drive June 14

Liberty Belles and Boys 4-H Club is holding a drive-thru food drive to benefit the Ada Food Pantry.

The food drive will be held on Saturday, June 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at Hays Insurance on Main Street. The food pantry needs items such as peanut butter, jelly, canned fruit, mac and cheese, canned meats, canned beans, and personal hygiene items.

This is one of the 4-H club's most successful community service projects, and this year they hope to get at least 500 items donated. Please bring your donation to Hays Insurance on Saturday morning!

Fall soccer sign-up this month at ReStore Center

Ada Fall Soccer sign-up will be the following times at Restore Community Center.

Saturday, June 21, 9-10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, June 24 6-7 p.m.
Saturday, June 28 9-10:30 a.m.

U6 is $25 and includes a shirt
U8 is $30
U10 is $35
U12 is $40
U12 is $45

Age is as of August 1, 2014. Jersey for U8 and above is $20 if needed. A $5 discount applies for each additional child. New players will need a copy of their birth certificate.

Forms and other information can be found at www.adasoccer.org or by contacting Mark Light at [email protected]

Rooftop work

There's some serious roof work going on at the corner of High Avenue at Main Street this month.

Here's letter number 3 in the Ada A-B-C Summer Contest

HERE'S LETTER NUMBER THREE.

Welcome to Ada’s A-B-C Summer Contest.

Each week in June and ending in the first week of July, The Icon will post two photos revealing one letter (or number) taken from Main Street Ada buildings and structures. All photos were taken in May by the Icon’s official contest photographer, Bailey Bowers. The photos cover Main from College Avenue on the south to Highland Avenue on the north.

We invite Icon viewers to keep track of the letters by identifying each letter’s location. An entry form is attached to this story for viewers to keep up to date in the contest.

15 minutes with Allen Jenkins: He's a business major focusing on accounting and finance at BGSU

15 Minutes with Allen Jenkins, 2013 AHS Grad
Interview by Bailey Bowers

What have you been up to since your graduation from Ada High School?
​After high school, I chose to go to college at Bowling Green State University and pursue a business degree specializing in Accounting and Finance. Some people may be confused about the word specializing because most business schools don't have specializations. At BG, all business students earn a BS in Business Administration and then they chose to specialize in an area of business. 

Ohio Northern University honors distinguished alumni

Ohio Northern University’s Alumni Association presented Distinguished Alumni Awards during a banquet on May 31.

The awards, recognizing outstanding service and loyalty, were presented to Jason Duff, James Gallagher, Michael Grandillo and Steven Roebuck. The banquet was part of Northern’s 2014 Alumni Weekend, held May 30 to June 1.

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