Social media is a powerful tool and the Ada Icon uses it very successfully to attract viewers.
At the moment the Icon has 490 Facebook friends. We post from one or two items on our Facebook page every day. Here’s some examples of the number of people we’ve reached this spring, which demonstrates our most popular stories. These are the top five stories that attracted viewers from Facebook:
1 - Ada prom videos reached 1,265 on facebook
2 - 1924 Ada football team reached 667
3 - Craig Hoffman 15 minute interview reached 580
4 - Bailey Bowers 15 minute interview reached 568
5 - Spring fever follies photos reached 445
Margaret Louise Williams, 91, died at 8:15 p.m. on June 14, 2014 at Lost Creek Care Center, Lima, Ohio.
She was born on July 23, 1922 in Lima, Ohio to Clifford and Sadie (Hinkle) Fredericks. She was preceded in death by her father, mother and step mother, Violet N. Fredericks. In October of 1941, she married James Robert Williams, Sr. and he preceded her in death on July 4, 1977.
Margaret was a homemaker and a member of the LaFayette Congregational Church, where she served as a Sunday School teacher for over fifty years. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter #121 of LaFayette.
The Hardin County Men’s Garden Club, with the assistance of the Hardin County Master Gardeners, is sponsoring “An Evening Garden Affair” on June 23 at the Friendship Gardens of Hardin County, located at 960 Kohler Street, Kenton. The program is from 6-9 p.m. and will feature a presentation by Dr. Laura Deeter, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Landscape Horticulture and Horticultural Science, OSU A.T.I. Wooster, Ohio.
A mud volleyball event benefiting Brandy England and family will be held at 10 a.m. on June 21 at Ohio Northern’s mud volleyball court. The donation for teams of four is $20.00.
Lunch will be available for purchase after the tournament. Appropriate attire is required. The event is sponsored by the Ada Family Center. For more information, call or text Pastor Ray Hadley at 419-235-7307.
The Ada Kiwanis Club will host a Harlan’s barbeque chicken dinner from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, July 11 at the Liberty National Bank parking Lot.
The meal includes 1/2 barbeque chicken, baked beans and applesauce. Meals will be offered as carryout only and drivers are asked to enter from Central Avenue. Tickets are $8.00.
Children are invited to join the Vacation Bible School stampede at the Sonwest Roundup: A Rip-Roaring Good Time with Jesus, which will be held from 6-8 p.m., June 23-26 at the Ada Church of Christ, 316 S. Main St., Ada.
Children 4-12 years old are invited to free summer fun at a vacation bible school with the theme “The International Spy Academy: Agents for the One True God.”
Sessions will be from 6-8 p.m., July 7-11, at First Baptist Church of Ada, 350 W. North Avenue, Ada. For more information, contact the church office at 419-634-8041 or [email protected].
An ice cream social featuring Dietsch’s ice cream will be dished up from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18 at ReStore Community Center, 210 North Main St., Ada, Ohio.
Hosted by the Ada First United Methodist Women, the event will offer sandwiches, brownies, sides and beverages, as well as the opportunity to make your own ice cream sundae.
Tickets are $6.00; tickets for children under 10 are $4.00.
Each week in June and ending in the first week of July, The Icon will post two photos revealing one letter (or number) 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.
We invite Icon viewers to keep track of the letters by identifying each letter’s location. An entry form is attached to this story for viewers to keep up to date in the contest.
