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Deadline midnight Sunday to enter Icon's summer contest

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, July 18, 2014

Here's your absolute last chance to enter the Icon's  Ada’s A-B-C Summer Contest.

OPEN THE ATTACHMENT BELOW TO SEE ALL THE LETTERS ONE MORE TIME!

For persons wanting to review all photos, you will find them on the attachment at the bottom of this story.

The 10 letters spell out "T H E   A D A  I C O N." Clever, right?

The photos or numbers are taken from Main Street Ada buildings and structures. All photos were taken in May by the Icon’s official contest photographer, Bailey Bowers. The photos cover Main from College Avenue on the south to Highland Avenue on the north.

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Ada loves to read in the summer; just ask the library

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, July 17, 2014

Ada loves to read in the summer.

Amanda Bennett, Director of the Ada Public Library, updated the Ada Kiwanis Club about this summer’s library reading program, which has concluded

She noted the following:
• 446 people signed up for summer reading program, which included:
• 57 babies - age 5
• 152 kindergarten - 5th grade
• 76 6th grade to 12th grade
• 161 adults

Also: 231 persons of all ages finished the program (roughly 51%)

The library held 73 programs over six weeks, with 1,787 attending the programs.

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Area wheat harvest above average; soybeans and corn also look good

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, July 17, 2014

“Good quality wheat and an above average yield.”

That’s one way to describe the 2014 wheat harvest in the Icon viewership area.

Larry Kaiser, manager Ada grain branch of Heritage Cooperative, provide the Icon with some of this year’s harvest figures.

Kaiser reports yields ranging from 65 to 90 bushels per acre, with an average of about 80 bushels per acre. Moisture content average was 15.2 percent mostly (13.5 percent is dry).

The first wheat arrived at the Ada elevator on July 5 and the harvest should be completed by the end of this week.

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Meyer Hall of Science was first called Basic Sciences Building

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Here's more of our Ada past and present series created by Bailey Bowers.

Pictured here is the rear side of ONU’s Meyer Hall of Science, located on Lincoln Avenue. 

Meyer Hall was named for the university’s seventh president, Samuel Lewis Meyer.

Construction began in November 1968 and the building was dedicated Oct. 3, 1970. The building cost roughly $3,200,000. Originally, the structure was called the Basic Sciences Building, since it was home to the biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics departments.

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Ada is a biker's paradise on Saturday

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The bikers are coming to Ada on Saturday.

There could be as many as 300 – all on 10-speeds and similar varieties. Their arrival is part of the annual Young’s Ice Cream Charity Bike Tour, an 83-mile (one way) jaunt from Yellow Springs to Ada and return.

CLICK HERE to visit Young's website to learn more about the event.

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County's five-year strategic plan explained in Ada Wednesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Vision: Unite our community heritage with new growth, expansion, innovation and talent for Hardin County to become a model community in northwest Ohio.

Ada CIC members will hear first-hand about that vision, which is part of the Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance five-year strategic plan.

The session is part of CIC’s monthly meeting, open to the public is at noon in the Dean’s Heritage Room (Conference Room 7) in McIntosh Center at Ohio Northern University.

Representatives of the county chamber and business alliance will make the presentation in Ada.

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