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What's on the November school menu?

It's here on the Icon
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, November 1, 2016

The Ada school menu for November is now available.

CLICK HERE to view the menu.

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All the music you can eat - 39th annual Ada Music Boosters' Music Feast is Saturday

Community members may attend Ada’s exhibition performance, free of charge, at 5:15 p.m.
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 31, 2016

It's this weekend.

It's the 39th annual Ada Music Boosters Ada Music Feast Show Choir Invitational Competition.

Fourteen show choirs from Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana will compete on Saturday, Nov. 5.

Ada Varsity Singers, directed by Scott Henning, vocal music director and Jonathan Lischak, Ddirector of instrumental and co-director, will provide an exhibition performance as the host school for this day-long event.

Ada Music Feast always draws a “standing room only” crowd and is one of the best attended and well run show choir competitions in the Midwest.

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You won't see this on the street - it's nine different plates

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 31, 2016

You won't find this plate on the street. It's a combination of nine different license plates that spells "TOMMY TIRE," an Ada business. It's on diplay in the Bluffton office. We see mostly Ohio plates and two states that we can't identify used in this artistic work.

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Best pizza in Ada in 2016? Padrone's Pizza

Taste tests following the residential vote determines the winner
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, October 27, 2016

Padrone’s Pizza won bragging rights for the best pizza in Ada following Monday night’s Ada pizza bake off sponsored by the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce.

Also competing the contest were East of Chicago, Easter House and Cosi. Residents who tasted the three entries based the award upon voting that took place.

In addition, donations at the event totaled over $100 to be donated between ReStore Community Center and the Ada Food Pantry.

Several Ada residents were winners in the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce fun fact game.

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Ada Rotary Club raises the "End Polio Now" flag in Ada

To mark historic progress toward a polio-free world
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, October 27, 2016

The Ada Rotary Club raised the  “End Polio Now” flag in the  Depot Park on Monday.

Rotary members in Ada are among thousands who reached out on World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds and support to end polio – an incurable but vaccine preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today.

Poliomyelitis (polio) is a paralyzing and potentially fatal disease that  invades  the nervous system and can  cause  total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age but mainly affects children under 5 years old.

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Ada HS marching band qualifies for OMEA state marching band finals contest

First-ever state finals performance in history of music program
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Saturday Oct. 22, marked the Ada High School marching band's fourth weekend of competition, as well as its fourth 1st place finish. 

The band place first in the Bloom Carroll Classic, in Carroll, Ohio. In addition, the band won Best Color Guard, Best Percussion, Best Visual, and Best General Effect and Best Music Awards.

The band continued its success Saturday at the Tri-Valley Classic in Dresden. At that contest, the last regular-season contest of the season, the band qualified for the Ohio Music Education Association State Marching Band Finals for the first time in the history of Ada's instrumental music program. 

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