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Varsity A - one-half century ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, May 10, 2021

Here are members of the Ada High School Varsity A Club from the 1970-71 school year. Names of members are under the photo.

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Goodbye, butterfly!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, May 9, 2021

Students in Mrs. Gossard's first grade classroom recently watched the butterflies that they've cared for sail off into the Ada sky. Watch this event from a video on Ada Bulldogs Facebook by clicking here.

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Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival returns

The 10 p.m. football drop is back - Saturday, Aug. 28
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, May 9, 2021

As events begin opening in Ada, the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce share updates with the Icon. Here’s the latest on the Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival, planned for Saturday, Aug. 28.

While events are in the planning stages, festival participants can watch a football scrimmage at Dial-Roberson Stadium featuring Ohio Northern University followed by a Punt, Pass, Kick competition. 

Evening activities will be held at the depot park and include a coaching clinic with area football coaches, display of footballs and related history by the Ada Historical Society, tailgating games, food trucks and raffles. 

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Where were you on Jan. 5, 2005?

The date of the ice storm of the century - it's recalled in an indepth ONU oral history project
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, May 9, 2021

Ohio Northern University student Nathan Thobe didn’t experience the January 2005 ice storm that struck the Midwest and Ada.

But, he talked with several village residents who did.  And, he obtained a video of the storm’s aftermath in Ada that was filmed by Jeff Young.

The interviews, video, plus many photos and newspaper clipping became part of Thobe’s final project in an oral history course this spring at ONU.

His project includes interviews with Max Trachsel, Angela Evans, Bob Ward, Tevye Celius, Kathleen DeVault, Paul Logsdon, Tonya Paul, Beth Gray, Jhon Lomax and Chad Hays.

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She'll be an artist-in-residence

Melina Woods selected to participate in Vanderbilt summer program
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, May 7, 2021

Melina Woods, an Ada High School graduate and a junior biology major at Ohio Northern University, will be an artist-in-residence this summer.

 She was recently selected to participate in the Summer 2021 Artist in Residence program at the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Nashville, Tennessee.

The AiR program is an opportunity for undergraduate students interested in art-science intersections to explore innovative means of science communication.

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Karen Griffin 1949 - 2021

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, May 7, 2021

Karen H. Griffin, 71, passed away at her residence on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at 10:47 p.m. surrounded by her family.

She was born on Dec. 21, 1949, in Bluffton, Ohio, to the late Kent W. and Beverly M. (Braitinger) Klingler. Karen married Roger P. Griffin and he survives in Port Clinton.  

Also surviving are her children: Scott R. Griffin of Port Clinton and Coleen (Mark) Johansen of Chillicothe;  10 grandchildren and several great grandchildren; two brothers: Charles Rex (Dee) Klingler of Ada and David Bradley (Erin) Klingler of Hartwell, Georgia; and a brother-in-law, Russell Griffin of Port Clinton.

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