The No. 30-ranked Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team fell 160-123 at Mount Union at the Hammond Natatorium Saturday afternoon. The Polar Bears fall to 4-3 overall and are 1-2 in Ohio Athletic Conference action, while the Purple raiders improve to 7-0, 3-0.
Seniors Eric Chen (Mason) and Logan Pfeifer (Bucyrus/Colonel Crawford) each won twice to lead ONU. Chen won the 100 free in :48.56 and Pfeifer won the 50 free in :22.34. The pair then combined with juniors Thomas Golba (Kettering/Archbishop Alter) and Ian Simpson (Strongsville) to win the 400 free relay in 3:16.85.
Quentin and Dillon Angle are the first two kiddos to complete 1,000 Books before Kindergarten at the Ada Public Library, according to Amanda Bennett of the library.
Quentin began the program at age 4, and finished at age 5. Younger brother, Dillon, began the program at age 2, and finished at age 3! But, what exactly is 1,000 Books before Kindergarten? According to the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten website:
Elzay Gallery of Art begins the semester not only with an art show but also with a concert. Composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Cosgrove performs at 8 p.m. Friday in the gallery. The program is free and open to the public. Ben’s work is focused on landscape, place, and ecology. “I don’t think of my pieces as rendering places in music,” Ben notes in an article in Harvard Magazine, “but more just as responding to places musically.
Welcome to the Ada Icon’s “Ada Teacher Feature.” Here we share thoughts and insights from local teachers who lift up and inspire our students. Let us lift up and inspire these educators as well. Today we meet Teri Salyer.
“I gave up too easily. Math was scary for me!” shares Teri Salyer. Giving up too easily did not remain in Teri’s equation as this Ada and ONU grad is in her 27th year of teaching. Read on to learn why Teri believes she is in the best profession in the world.
What to do you teach at Ada?
I teach 4th grade Math.
By Monty Siekerman
Having heard many speakers in more than 50 years of reporting, I can say none come close to the oratory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he spoke for 40 minutes in Taft Gym. I've heard no other speaker compare to his well thought out speech, a man with charisma, keeping his audience spellbound.
A rehearing of his talk of Jan. 11, 1968, which was posted on the Ada Icon Monday in observance of the national holiday, brought these reflections to mind:
1. The civil rights leader took a middle ground saying that yes, advances had been made but there was more to accomplish.
The Ohio Department of Transportation Distrtict 1 has used 1,287 tons of salt on Hardin County roads this winter, according to its initial 2016-17 winter expense report.
In addition, in Hardin County, ODOT vehicles have registered 17,441 miles, used 19,120 gallons of deicing liquids, for total labor, equipment and material costs of $222,957.
The chart attached reveals information in each of the counties covered by District 1.
