Here’s a year-end quiz to see just how much you know about Ada.
All of the questions in this quiz are based upon stories posted on the Ada Icon in 2015, and there are 14 possible points.
Scoring
Answer 4 or less: Do you really live here?
Answer 5 or 6: Hey, you are a serious Icon reader
Answer 7 or 8: Wow! You are in the know, congrats
Answer 9: You can create next year’s year-end quiz – probably now
Answer 10 or more: You either looked at the answers, or you are an Ada native
On Oct. 3, 1964 the Ada Kroger grocery store was closed.
Leo Wright was the store manager. With the closing Ada was left with the Don Lehman Supermarket in the 100 block of North Main Street and the Claude Harris IGA Foodliner at the south limits of the village.
Doyle Paugh operates a neighborhood market at 411 South Main, and John Elwood Equity store at 225 North Main Street.
Employees at the time of the closing were Don Fisher, assistant in the grocery department; Harold Carothers, produce department; John Spitzer, part-time utility man.
Jeff Kantner of Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, announces the store's January bargains of the month.
These include:
• Your choice, either 20-pound black oil sunflower bird seed,
or 40-pound wild bird food, $9.99
• 2-gallon, 6-ounce, palastic gas can, $7.99
• Your choice, either 16-pack AA or AAA alkaline batteries,
or 4-pack 9 volt alkaline batteries and 8-pack C or D alkaline batteries, $10.99
• Your choice, either 2-pack, 7.5 watts, or 13 watts LED bulbs, $5.99
Family True Value Hardware
Phone: 419-358-2866
Bluffton
Get your cinnamon buns at Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn Co., Main Street Bluffton in January.
Cinnamon buns is the flavor of the month, according to Pete Suter of Shirley's.
By Monty Siekerman
When you Google the words "First Night," you'll find several meanings, including one about New Year's Eve. That meaning is about a safe, affordable, fun time in many cities.
But I have another definition for "First Night," that of one with a new puppy.
The night you first bring a puppy home is anything but sane. Nope, not affordable, either. Breeders charge hundreds of dollars nowadays for a furry, four-legged critter.
Yesterday the Ada Icon posted 12 photos representing events taking place in Ada during 2015. That photo series is now being shared with Bluffton viewers on the Bluffton Icon.
Likewise, the Bluffton Icon is sharing 12 photos of Bluffton with Ada Icon viewers. Those photos are in the attachment at the bottom of this story.
The Ada Police Department is investigating the death of Brianna Green, 22-years-old of 439 E. Lehr, Ada, according to Michael Harnishfeger, police chief.
According to Harnishfeger:
At 7:39 a.m. the Ada Police Department and Ada Liberty Rescue Squad was called to 439 East Lehr in reference to a female who was reported as deceased.
Upon officer’s arrival we discovered Brianna deceased in her bedroom.
The Ada Police Department is investigating this death with the assistance of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification and the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office.
