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There's a new restaurant menu in Ada. It's at The Inn at ONU and it's posted on the Icon. CLICK HERE FOR THE MENU.

Patrons will find:
• Starters
• Salads
• Specialties
• Sandwiches
• ¥our best burgers
• Social share - serves two people
• Desserts
• Refreshments

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The Icon stopped in at Ready, Set, Grow Preschool on "D" day. Students  were studying the fourth letter of the alphabet as the Icon took these photos.

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Ronald Houston Leonard, age 87, died on Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima. 

He was born on March 14, 1930 in Galion, Ohio to the late William and Gertrude (Armentrout) Leonard. 

Ronald enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1949 and he retired after serving for 20 years. 

Besides bases in the U.S., he was also stationed in Japan, Germany, Korea and Iceland. 

Ronald was stationed in Kobe, Japan where he met his wife Nancy K. Ikoma and they married on June 1, 1951, she survives in Ada. 

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No, this is not an Ada photo, but it's a place you've probably visited. It's the Morning Star cider press on Road R between Bluffton and Ada.

Today you know it better as Suter's corn maze. Not much appears to have changed at the business in this color slide taken by Paul Diller of Bluffton in the early 1950s.

Looks like an early 1950s Ford, GMC truck, maybe a Chrysler and Studebaker in line for cider. (Photo from Jim Diller collection)

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EYE WYN was spotted on a sporty Mitsubishi parked on South Simon in Ada.

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Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
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August 18, 1939 the American Legion Post will be erecting in Woodlawn Cemetery an eight foot monument to soldiers, sailors and nurses of all U.S. wars.

November 20, 1939 Doling’s Bakery, one of Ada’s oldest business houses, closed its doors Monday after 50 years by members of the same family.

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