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Hardin County Sheriff's office and Ada FFA team up for Christmas

Two fun short videos you'll want to see
Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 24, 2016

The Spirit of Christmas has a little bit of Ada as seen here.

Here's two Facebook videos from the Hardin County Sheriff's Office. Watch the deputies deliver foot baskets donated by the Ada High School Future Farmers of America.

Click the link to watch:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hardin-County-Sheriffs-Office/13285836339...

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Dreaming of Christmases, like the ones I used to know

A highlight of the season was a shopping trip to downtown Lima
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 23, 2016

No question about it.

My memories of the best Christmas ever come in a package wrapped from stores located in the Lima public square.

I know. It's sounds impossible to viewers born after Neil A. walked on the moon; but it's true.

There was nothing...nothing like going to Lima and shopping downtown for Christmas.

Picture this: Somewhere on South Main, Lima, there was Porter's Music Store. You could actually select a 33 1/3 rpm album, enter a listening booth and listen to the album in privacy. That way you'd know if you wanted to buy it or pass.

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If the first Christmas was in 2016

Using poetic license, here's the Icon's version of a familiar story
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 23, 2016

The Icon offers this Christmas story, repeated from last Christmas.

In the eighth year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Latta was fifth district representative.

Jose from Lebanon, Ohio, with his young housekeeper, Maria, who was nine-month’s pregnant with someone else’s child, and who Jose had intended to marry, drove to Ada in Jose’s 1996 Mercury Cougar. This was because Jose was a great-great-great-grandson of one of the original immigrants in Liberty Township.

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A Merry Steelions Christmas

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 23, 2016

The Wild Steelions steel drum band gave two Christmas performances on Dec. 23. The photo above shows Jacob Bassett, Connor Daugherty, Isabella Mancuso of the group performing at Vancrest of Ada. Later in the afternoon the band performed at Maple Crest, Bluffton. Playing Caribbean music and Christmas songs, members are directed by Dr. Sarah Waters.The Steelions are composed of 12-15 year olds from Ada and Lima who are learning steel drum music. Pictured below are Carmen Mancuso, Nate Hall, Ian Dellifield and Dr.

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Santa like Ada - and Ada likes Santa

...there's always a red suit, but at times he's thin...see for yourself
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 23, 2016

By Monty Siekerman
Santa has visited Ada many times in the past month as these Ada Icon photos attest. To see more of where he has been in Ada check out the photos at the bottom of this story.

Santa sometimes appears a little stocky, sometimes thinner, sometimes short or tall. One time he was caught by the camera with glasses.

But, he's always jolly, loves kids, and wears the read and white suit he's known for. Some days, Santa's beard is thick and full. Other tines the beard is little scraggly, but that's when Mrs. Claus didn't give her approval before he left the workshop.

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ONU has five women's soccer members with academic honors

Earned from Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association
Posted by Beth Downing on Thursday, December 22, 2016

The Ohio Northern women's soccer team saw five members earn Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association Academic All-Ohio honors for the 2016 season.

Senior Shelby Stephens (Cypress, Tex./Cypress Woods) was named OCSA First Team Academic All-Ohio, while seniors Missy Ward (Columbus/Westerville North) and Haley Napier (Beavercreek) and juniors Hannah Reich(Howell, Mich.) and Anna Niemeyer (Loveland) each earned OCSA Second Team Academic All-Ohio accolades.

Stephens, a Marketing major from Cypress, Tex., earned her second consecutive OCSA First Team All-Ohio honor.

Stephens led the team and ranked fifth in the OAC with nine goals.

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