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The Alger Memorial Festival Committee will hold a country-style breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan 7, at the Alger Social Center, 210 N. Main St., Alger.

The menu includes biscuits, sausage gravy, hash browns, scrambled eggs, fried apples, sausage patties and a beverage.

A suggested donation is $7. The breakfast is all-you-can-eat (premises only). Carry out is available. Call 419-679-8460 for free local delivery.

This fog is just ducky, can't see where we are going, which way to class guys? (Photo by Ken Collins)

The Ada school board will hold its reorganizational meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 12, in the school.

Jackie E. "Jack" Fancher, 80, died on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at 12:50 a.m. at Vancrest of Ada.

He was born on Dec. 19, 1936, in McGuffey, Ohio to Wilmoth "Curly" and Dorothy Agnes (Dodds) Fancher who preceded him in death. On Jan. 21, 1956, Jack married Pat M. Decker and she survives in Ada.

Jack was a farmer. He was a member of the Bethel Church of Christ, Ada. He was a 1954 graduate of McGuffey High School. He was a social member of the Ada VFW Post #9381 and a member of the Ada Liberty Conservation Club. Jack and Pat wintered at Hawthorne in Leesburg, Florida for many years.

You know when the holidays are official over. It's the day Ada schools return to session. Wednesday, Jan. 4 is the first school day of 2017.

And viewers from 146 countries opened the Icon last year

By Monty Siekerman
You can spell success A-D-A-I-C-O-N.

The year 2016 began with the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce naming the Ada Icon the Business of the Year, which is unusual for a company that began less than three years ago.

Why such an honor?

Owners Fred and Mary Steiner developed a product that meets the needs of the community: providing news and photographs of local people and events that affect the lives of residents.

Here's the proof:

• There were 221,930 page views last year, an astounding 24 percent increase in one year.

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