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As tall as it gets

Farmers have benefited from the weather this year as evidenced by the tall corn in the area. The Icon captured this between Bluffton and Ada late last week.

Cort Reynolds article reviews Game 4 of the 1985 NBA Finals

Posted on celticsblog.com

Icon sports writer Cort Reynolds' latest SB Nation celticsblog.com article was recently published. 

The article reviews Game 4 of the 1985 NBA Finals between Boston and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Cort has received SB Nation Best of Day in the past.

Click here to view it:

https://www.celticsblog.com/2021/7/26/22593773/reliving-the-almost-perfe...

What We Can Learn From the Red Coats

By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team

April 18, 1775 was famous for the ride of Paul Revere and his fellow colonists who warned that the Red Coats were coming. The Red Coats were British Army soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War. The Red Coats were not well trained compared to other soldiers in the British army. The soldiers were in an unfamiliar environment with a vast countryside of harsh situations with few loyalists to help them. Why talk about the Red Coats and what do we have to learn from the British? How does this apply to COVID-19 pandemic?

Patsy Fern Worrell was a member of the County Line Church of the Brethren

Patsy Fern Worrell, age 79, went home to be with her Lord and husband Ralph whom passed away on March 6th of this year, at Vancrest of Ada  on Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 6:45 PM.

She was born on October 30, 1941 in Lima, Ohio to Clyde N. and Fern (McCarty) Long who preceded her in death. She married Ralph M. Worrell on January 26, 1957, and they were married for sixty-three years.   

Patsy formerly worked at Gardner Drug Store, Ada and at Lima Memorial Health System.  She was a member of the County Line Church of the Brethren, Harrod.  Patsy was loved by everyone who knew her.  Her greatest love was her family whom she loved endlessly.

Beantown Baggers holds cornhole tournament this weekend

Registration is Saturday at noon

Beantown Baggers is hosting a cornhole tournaments this year in Ada at the Farmers and Merchants Fair.

Interested individuals should have a two-person team and bring their own bags.

The tournament is double elimination and is being held at Ada War Memorial Park.

Registration will begin at noon on Saturday, Aug. 14. Cost is $30 per team.

The tournament begins at 1 p.m.

Masks now required indoors on the Ohio Northern campus

Exceptions for personal offices or residence hall spaces

Ohio Northern University has announced that all members of the ONU community will wear masks indoors, if not in a personal office or residence hall space, beginning on Aug. 9.

Due to the level of transmission for Hardin County increasing from moderate (yellow) to substantial (orange), ONU is now requiring those who are vaccinated to wear masks indoors, a change that will be noted in the ONU Safety Plan. Those who are unvaccinated are already required to mask indoors as described in the ONU Safety Plan as well.

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