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Sign-up now for basic or advance one-hour course

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By Monty Siekerman
Football is just around the corner, and the ONU football coaching staff will hold Football U for anyone wanting to learn more about the game. It's free and open to the public. Here are details:

There will be a 1-hour basic level course Saturday. Registration is at 1 p.m., the session starting at 1:30 p.m. This course features Basic Level (Football 101) and Advanced Level (Football 452) sessions.

The Offensive 101 level session will run concurrently with the Defensive 452 session, and vice versa. Each session will be 30 minutes in duration.

Where were you when the sun blinked at 2:28 p.m.?

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Note: While Monty Siekerman is on a sunny vacation in Florida the Bluffton I con shares its solar eclipse photos with Ada viewers.

FROM BLUFFTON ICON - Where were you when the sun blinked at 2:28 p.m.?

Many Icon viewers were wearing funny dark glasses and staring into space. Those who did have a story to tell their grandchildren. Ada and Bluffton were at 85 percent coverage of the great solar eclipse of 2017.

While not like a total eclipse, it was a very noticible afternoon.

CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO AND PHOTOS BELOW -

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The Ada Icon seeks viewers who live in the path of the Aug. 21 solar eclipse - or area viewers who traveled to see the eclipse at its full view.

1 – Send your comments
2 – Photos (if you have any)
3 - The location you watched the eclipse
4 - Who you were with at the time
5 - Anything else pertaining to your experience

Send to: [email protected].

Watch for a follow-up story on Ada's eclipse watchers.

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Here's the Ada school board during the 1967-68 school year. Standing from left, Dr. Robert Elliott, board president; Ron Parshall and Larry Archer.

Seated from left, Dr. Thomas Martin and Nancy DaPore, board vice-president.

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The Icon spotted VAMIO1 (that's a zero one) on a silver Mazda Protege 5 on the ONU campus. It's a Hardin County plate.

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The Ohio Northern women's tennis team will open the fall portion of its 2017-18 schedule under 17th-year head coach Scott Wills on Sept. 6 with a tri-match at Defiance with Concordia (Mich.)

Northern will also compete at the Kenyon Invitational and the ITA Regional Championships at Oberlin.

The Kenyon Invitational will include one of the strongest fields in the country for Fall competition. 

ONU will hit the courts against nationally-ranked Carnegie Mellon (Pa.), Kenyon, Case Western Reserve, Denison and Oberlin in addition to host of regionally ranked foes.

The Polar Bears finished the 2016-17 season 22-5 overall and 7-1 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

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