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How will you remember 2020? (Or, won’t want to remember 2020)
Let us count the ways:
• Covid-19
• Masks, or un-masked
• School year disruptions
• Cancellation of most community events
• Swimming pool opens!
• School in session, then remote, then back in session
• Presidential election
• Limited holiday travel
No matter how you will remember 2020, the Icon joins you in the hope that 2021 will be a better year.
Before we change calendars, the Icon offers 12 photographs from Ada’s 2020, one for each month.
2019 saw 406
Life Flights from
Bluffton + 19 ground transports
FROM BLUFFTON ICON - On Feb 1, 2021, Mercy Health will introduce a consolidated Life Flight Network to handle its air and ground transportation services.
The Bluffton Airport is home to one of the four Mercy Health Life Flight bases involved in the new network. Other bases include a mobile ICU base, plus air bases in Wauseon and Sandusky.
The Life Flight Network will combine and coordinate existing air services of Life Flight, which provides medical transportation services, including critical care transport, with ground medical transportation services provided by LACP and LifeStar.
This photo was taken on Christmas Eve by the Icon photographer. We actually caught Santa placing gifts under the tree at 613 Union Street. Turns out that Santa was seen through the front room window.
Icon sports writer, Cort Reynolds, recently had an article publilshed on the Boston Celtics blog.
The article is about ex-Boston player and coach, K.C.Jones. He won eight titles as a Celtic defensive ace guard, and two more as Boston head coach in the mid-1980s. Jones died Christmas Day at age 88.
Senior Sam Krabacher (Hamilton/Badin) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Month for January.
A middle distance runner by trade, Krabacher is one several student/athletes on the Ohio Northern track and field team that gives a full commitment to the cross country season as well.
He is highly successful in the middle distances on the track, earning five All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors in his career, including back-to-back top-3 finishes in the 800-meter dash at the OAC Indoor Championships.
