By Monty Siekerman
Sometimes, this modern age (I'm talking technology here) gets the carriage before the horse.
First off, I want to thank the three ladies at Rite Aid in Ada for patiently helping me for 45 minutes try to print pictures of my recently deceased dog, Caesar.
We tried. We failed.
Remember not too many moons ago when you could buy roll of 400 ASA film, shoot 24 or so pictures, return to the store, drop off the film and, if you are lucky, get your prints back within 24 hours?
Not anymore.
You need a camera with a chip (some call it a disk). That's a little thing, made of who knows what, that holds hundreds, maybe thousands, of pictures of whatever.
But if you have your pictures on your tablet (yes, I can take photos and write my Ada Icon stories on this wonder of a machine called a tablet) then, you are pretty much out of luck trying to get a print for a picture frame. And, at my age, I have collected lots of frames.
So, we plugged this into that and that into this.
One of the patient helper-ladies even went to a store computer and Googled a bunch of stuff trying to find the answer.
The final diagnosis (and not a pretty one) is that if I bought a computer I could get prints.
Merely transfer the pictures from my tablet to a computer, then to a chip (or disk, if you prefer), then to a big machine in the store which will spit out my prints for the many picture frames that I have collected.
Understand that procedure? I don't.
Now all I have to do is buy a computer.
AGGIE RETURNS
Aggie Crates returned to ReStore for the weekly Crock Pot Tuesday dinner this week. She was all smiles as were the many diners who greeted her warmly. She has had some health issues since her 102nd birthday in September. But, look out world, Aggie is back - walking without help, going from table to table greeting friends, lighting up the room. And, I got a hug and a kiss.
HE GOT IT RIGHT
Jamie Hall said, "When you see mud on the roads, you know progress is taking place."
He was referring to earth left on roadways by construction trucks.
And, so it is in Ada:
• $16 million water plant to open next year
• $6 million nursing home to be completed in February.
• $6 million United Methodist Church opened last spring
• $1 million medical facility under construction
• $1 million improvement to Klingler Road completed this summrr
• Safe Route to Schools project accomplished this fall
• Sidewalk improvements made.
• University---no new buildings, but several multimillion dollar grants received for research and projects as well as recognition in several national publications about ONU's quality
• Business and Industry---no major additions, but none pulled up stakes and left the community.
Overall, it's been a banner year!
Jamie, assistant village administrator, got it right: Ada is experiencing progress.
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