Gregory Phipps, a member of the ONU faculty, of Lima recently received a doctorate in management of technology and digital communications from the Indiana State University.
The assistant professor of communication at Ohio Northern University is a graduate from Lima Technical College and the University of Toledo’s electronic engineering programs. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Bluffton in organizational management.
His research topics include broadcast television communications and the adoption of bonded-cellular transmission technology.
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.
