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Grace Gospel Church chicken barbecue April 18

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Ada Grace Gospel Church will hold a Harlan's chicken barbecue from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, April 18, at the church. 

Tickets are $7.50 each and are available by calling 419-634-2554. Drive through or walk-ins are available.

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Ada Kindergartners perform plays about "The Three Bears"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 16, 2013

On Thursday April 18, Mrs. Smittle’s Kindergarten children will be performing plays that they wrote on the retelling of the Three Bears. 

The first performance is at noon and the second performance is a 7 p.m. The
children listened to numerous versions of the Three Bears, then met in groups
and retold and wrote down their retelling of this classic story.

They made puppets and masks for their performances and also created posters for this
event. Families will be attending both performances.

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"Emma" with Gwenyth Paltrow shown at Ada Public Library on Wednesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 16, 2013

WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY

The 1996 film "Emma," based on Jane Austen's classic novel, starring Gwenyth Paltrow, will be showed at the Ada Public Library, at 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 17.

This movie version follows the story of a young girl In rural 1800s England. Emma thinks she's good at matchmaking, but you can be the judge. True to Austen, much mayhem and humor ensue.

When her governess, Miss Taylor (Greta Scacchi), gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr. Weston (James Cosmo), Emma proudly takes credit for having brought the couple together.

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For the love of a cat

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Carissa Click, Ada High School junior, works on a scratch board art project in Art II. The cat she is creating on scratch board is her cat "Lacey." When this photo was taken she was about five days into the art project.

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Weather summary: Now it's more like April

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Now it's more like April: Highs reaching 70 and lows in the 40s with rain here and there. Here's the seven-day weather summary from Guy Verhoff, Icon weather observer.
Date         High    Low  Prec
April 8        72      40    0.09
April 9        82      49
April 10      69      44    1.35
April 11      44      40    1.07
April 12      42      40    0.22
April 13      42      39    0.05
April 14      60      35    trace
April 15      70      51
 

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Needing to dance

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 15, 2013

Madison Stoner, Ada High School sophomore and Art II student, works on a hard-edged painting of a ballerina. The acrylic work is 24 by 36 inches and when The Icon took this photo last week Madison had worked on the piece for about two to three weeks.

 

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