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Janet Fisher, a life-long Ada resident, is this month's Vancrest resident spotlight.

She grew up in Ada and graduated from Ada High School. She worked at Hal and Jean's restaurant for many years, saying that she took the job because a teacher told her that it would "break her shyness."

She enjoyed bowling and now her favorite game is balloon volleyball. Janet is a long-term care resident of Vancrest.

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Margaret J. Gossard, 82, died on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 3:46 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System.

She was born on July 23, 1936, in Alger, Ohio, to the late Harry and Sarah (Coppler) Nichols. On Sept. 2, 1969 Margaret married Leslie A. Gossard and he died March 10, 1970.

Margaret was a homemaker. She was a member of the Quickstep Pentecostal Church of God, Alger.

She is survived by a daughter: Lana A. (Bill Stebleton) Freshcorn of Lima; and one granddaughter: Desirea Freshcorn; two grandsons: Anthony Ellis and Eric Smith; and seven great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by seven brothers and four sisters.

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Petra Risser enjoyed Saturday's downtown Ada car show on her own set of wheels. Her parents pulled her one-of-a-kind wagon down the street to check out all the heavy chrome, V-8 engines and vehicles with running boards. Watch the Icon for more photos and a list of show winners.

Receipts up 4.52 percent from last year

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At mid-year, Ada’s village income tax receipts are up 4.52 percent over the same period last year, according to Jeff Oestreich.

See the chart below.

Oestreich presented the report during a July Ada council meeting earlier this month. The total collected during the first six months of 2019 reached $609,301 compared to $582,952 in 2018, for an increase of $36,339.

The safety income tax is up $13,169 and pool income tax reserves is up $3,950.

Singing, dancing, making drums, playing instruments and building new friendships

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Mother of 6th and 8th graders: “Our boys loved the week of choral camp!”

Eleven singers, grades 1 to 8, joined Noteworthy Community Choir’s first-ever Summer Sounds Choral Camp, and spent the week singing, dancing, making drums, playing instruments and building new friendships.  

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“We didn’t know the vocal skills of the campers until day one, and they were wonderful singers!  We even managed a three-part song!”  says, Vicki Mills, director of SSCC.  

“Year one was a fantastic success, and we’re already looking forward to year two. I even heard a camper tell his mom he wanted to come to this camp again next year!”

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Hilda M. Young, 89, died July 21, 2019, at Bridge Hospice Care Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. Hilda was born Nov. 23, 1929, in Ada to the late Coy and Mabel (Scoles) Binkley.  On Oct. 15, 1948, she married Edison "Eddie" Young and they were married for 62 years prior to his death on Oct. 27, 2011.

Hilda graduated from Ada High School and was a homemaker.  She enjoyed cooking, fishing and dogs. Hilda and her husband enjoyed going camping in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for weeks at a time where they loved to fish. They spent many weekends at their place on the Lake in Michigan, where eight families from Bluffton had places all side by side each other called "Doc's Hideaway."

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