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D. Allan Ewing, age 65, passed peacefully on Monday, July 24, 2017 at 1:59 AM after many years of battling CIDP at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima. 

He was born on February 14, 1952 in Kenton, Ohio to the late Dwight E. and Hattie M. (Dotson) Ewing. 

On June 22, 1983 Allan married Mary (Hubbell) Ewing and she survives at their rural Alger home. 

Nope, this isn't Ada, but your parents might recognize it.

It's the Bluffton swimming pool and Buckeye quarry from the 1950s. Paul Diller snapped these photos.

The pool was on the east side of the Buckeye. It is included a bath house, baby pool, larger pool going to 5 or 6 feet, and the Buckeye quarry for persons who could pass a swim test. The Buckeye had three diving boards.

Here's a plate the Icon spotted in Bluffton. It's on a maroon Jeep.

 

Meet Storm. Storm is a female black lab mix. She is 4 years old. Can you provide a forever home for Storm?

To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.

Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.

Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.

The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse

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                                                        Ada in 1925

June 1925 Harry Mohr has the distinction of being the first to have an automatic water softener installed in his new home on North Gilbert .

August 1925 the Ku Klux Klan held a meeting on the Harding farm, south of Woodlawn cemetery.

September 1925 for the first time, Ada employed two policemen for day and night duty.

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