Former Ada resident Connie (Miller) Dixon, now of Sidney, responded to the Icon’s request for snow photos.
She writes: "We always played out in the snow in Ada when I was growing up and so I still like to go out and play in the snow and I'm still growing up.” Here are descriptions of her three photos:
• Heart tramped out in the snow at my house by an unknown visitor
• My back yard...deer have eaten apples out of the bird bath
Michael Benitez will be the keynote speaker for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the English Chapel at Ohio Northern University. The event is free and open to the public.
The theme of this year’s talk is “The time is always now: Upholding legacies of diversity leadership in 21st century America.”
The Ada Exempted Village Schools had a pipe that was part of the fire suppression system burst in the elementary portion of the K-12 building at approximately 4 p.m. on Monday, according to Meri Skilliter, superintendent.
“The rupture alerted the district’s security company, which dispatched the Ada Fire Department and administrators, who responded quickly,” said Skilliter.
Area affected included several hallways, the K-12 gymnasium, the library and a few classrooms.
A water mitigation service was summoned by the district to assist with clean-up shortly after the incident occurred.
Those two facts answer the two questions on most people’s minds in Ada today.
Q: How cold was it?
A: Minus 13 early Monday morning.
Q: How much snow did we get?
A: 6.7 inches on Saturday.
The weather stats are from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
That -13 is 1 degree colder than the coldest temperature reported in 2018. But it doesn’t match -16 in 2009 or -19 in 2014. Yet, it is 68 colder than January 2019 high of 55 on Jan. 8.
For the daily weather summary so this year look at the chart below.
