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JUNE 20 MEDIA RELEASE__Hardin DD (Hardin Board of Developmental Disabilities) marked a historic milestone last month, as Josh Gammon, a person served by the agency, was officially sworn in as a member of the Board of Directors for Hardin DD.  

By Paula Pyzik Scott

The Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon will be in summer break mode from June 30-July 6.

We will still be monitoring the in box at [email protected] and posting breaking news, obituaries and sports. Other news will be on pause.

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NOTE: Many thanks to the Icon reader who pointed out that there are 30 days in June!

Send us your July 2025 club meetings, community events, and holiday closures in the Village of Ada. June is flying by and July is on the horizon! Email [email protected]. Put a little more Ada in the Icon!

By Cort Reynolds

LIMA__The visiting Ada Gators summer swim team lost a West Ohio Aquatic League dual meet at the Westside Swim & Racquet Club on a hot Monday evening, June 23.

The Gator boys lost to Westside 284-124 to drop to 3-2 this summer. The Ada girls fell to the Waves 356-52 to lower their record to 1-4.

Westside thus won the boys-girls meet, 640-176. Ada is 1-4 this season in the combined meet category.

Adaite Lydia Demascio won two races in the girls 15-and-over age division to pace the Gator girls.

Ada’s Jacob Szippl also touched first in two events in the boys 15-and-over age group.

JUNE 24 MEDIA RELEASE — During the 2024-25 white-tailed deer muzzleloader hunting season, State Wildlife Officer Nathan Cass, assigned to Crawford County, received information that a hunter had exceeded the county bag limit of three deer. Officer Cass discovered that the suspect had harvested six deer, with three game-checked in Medina County despite being harvested in Crawford County. The suspect was charged with three counts of taking more than the county bag limit and three counts of providing false information when game checking a deer.

By Jeevan Jyoti, Student Pharmacist and Karen Kier, Pharmacist
On behalf of Healthwise Pharmacy

"No bones about it" is believed to have started in England around the 15th century. It described the unpleasant finding of bones in one's soup. Today we used the idiom to describe no hesitation or objection to something.

How can we maintain healthy bones?

Bone mineral density (BMD) is a measure of minerals in our bones and gives an indication of bone thickness or density. The measurement is evaluating mineral composition of the bone including the 2 most common minerals of calcium and phosphorus.

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