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Q: How many individuals viewed the Ada Icon in 2015?
A: Would you believe 42,684? That’s the answer, according to Google Analytics.

The analytic program tracks more statistics that we know what to do with. Needless to say, it reveals lots of significant information.

We’d like to share some of our 2015 facts and figures with viewers. For starters, those 42,684 viewers clicked on the Icon almost 100,000 times, or an average of a little over 8,000 total visits each month.

2015 viewer summary

Farewell, 2015.

Certainly a year to remember. The Icon took hundreds of photos in the past 365 or so days.

We’ve chosen one from each  month to represent the year that’s quickly fading. Some of photos are news worthy. Others are simply fun.

We hope these 12 paint a picture representing of life in 2015 in a small northwestern Ohio town named Ada.

Take a close look. You might find yourself here.

Enjoy them.

The Icon offers viewers a modern version of a familiar story.

In the seventh year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Jordan was fourth district representative.

Jose from Lebanon, Ohio, with his young housekeeper, Maria, who was nine-month’s pregnant with someone else’s child, and who Jose had intended to marry, drove to Ada in Jose’s 1996 Mercury Cougar. This was because Jose was a great-great-great-grandson of Dr. H.S. Lehr, Ada pioneer and founder of Ohio Northern University.

You won't need a sleigh for there will be no snow on Christmas Day.

Perhaps, you'll want to shop Reichert's in downtown Ada for swim trunks and an umbrella instead.

The Dec. 25 temp is predicted to be in the mid 50s with a good chance of rain. You can start dreaming now for a white Christmas in 2016.

By Monty Siekerman
In the Ada Icon's continuing series of unusual sights in town, we offer this photo. Know what it is and where it is located?

It's a robot outside the front entrance to Taft Memorial where Technological Studies is taught. It is a sculpture, of sorts.

The robot, in place there for the past four years, is "frozen" so the parts no longer move...thus it has not walked away in that length of time.

Put on your  math thinking caps.

The Icon invited Chris Leuthold, adjunct math instructor at Bluffton University, to provide The Icon with some math puzzles.  

We want to assist our viewers with ways to survive the long, dark winter nights. Chris rates the level of difficulty  in his quizzes from 1 to 4, with 4 being the toughest. 

He rates quiz 3 as a "3".

QUIZ NUMBER 3

Steve rode his bicycle at the rate of 15 mph for 4 hours. Then, he walked at the rate of 5 mph for 2 hours. What is Steve's average speed for the entire trip?

QUIZ NUMBER 2 from last week:

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