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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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December 1936 the Ada council started the proceeding for a 14 year age limit on drivers in Ada. Nearly 100 licenses have been issued to minors by the highway patrol who passed the drivers test as young as 11 and twelve years of age.

Matt Molinaro (Sterling Heights, Mich./DeLaSalle) will join Hoka's New Jersey New York Track Club, a premier elite track club based in New York to begin his professional running career.

 

Molinaro, the 2018 Indoor 800-meter run National Champion, met with Hoka in early June and agreed to train with the club in New York.

 Brent L. Wireman, age 43, died on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 6:03 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System.

          He was born on August 24, 1974 in Lima, Ohio to the late Gary and Elma “Faye” (Slone) Wireman.  On April 10, 2009 Brent married Amy L. Prine and she survives in Dunkirk, Ohio.

          Brent formerly worked as a fork lift driver at Honda.  He was a 1993 graduate of Allen East High School.  He was an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoyed playing golf.

June 14 - it's Flag Day

Today is Flag Day, and the Lila Pifer home at Main and State Route 81 is all decked out to observe the occasion. Lila stands on the balcony of her big brick home surrounded by a flag and a red, white, and blue umbrella turned on its side.

What's summer without an ice cream social? Wednesday evening's first such event of the summer was hosted by First United Methodist Church Women. Ken Collins shares these photos with Icon viewers.

Lima Symphony Orchestra comes to Ada

The Lima Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Independence Day with its fourth annual Patriotic Pops Concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 30, at Ohio Northern University.

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