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A tide pool with shrimp

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By Monty Siekerman
Sometimes, almost never, you find what might look like a flying shrimp in the most unlikely place...and all of this has a local connection.

Judith Greavu, ONU art professor emerita, sculpted “Tide Pool with Shrimp” a bronze and fused glass creation on display in Lakeland, Fla., now through the end of the year.

Admiring the winning artwork in Florida is Ada Icon Editor Monty Siekerman. Judith’s sculpture was one of 10 pieces selected from 65 proposals submitted to be displayed along Lemon Street in the heart of downtown Lakeland. She retired after teaching sculpture at Ohio Northern for 20 years.

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1919 Ada High School football team
Back row, left to right; Eldred Anspach, Charles Breck, Doc Lones, Carey, Nolan Smith, Fordyce Adam.

Center row: Conrad Poling, the manager, Bud Anspach, Coach Justin McElroy, Herb Greer

Front row: Jack Deming, Walter Matheny, Paul Shanks and Clifford Dixon

By Lee Crouse
The Ada High School 1919 football team was undefeated, but tied one game, their last one with Defiance.

The team that year was a powerhouse on defense, holding every opponent scoreless until that last game.

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OH AZ PA was spotted at the Bluffton shuffleboard court during the first match of the season. It's on a blue Chevy Silverado LTZ. Any doubts that this plate means Ohio, Arizona and Pennsylvania?

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The Ohio Northern men's basketball team will tip off its 2018-19 campaign as it hosts area- rival Defiance at the ONU Sports Center on Nov. 13 under third-year head coach Rich Bensman.

The Polar Bears begin the season with back-to-back home contests for the first time since the 1994-95 season as it hosts Denison at the ONU Sports Center on Nov. 17 following Northern's contest with Defiance.

Northern's first road contest will be at Hope (Mich.) on Nov. 20 at a time yet to be announced.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
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Summer 1924:

June 1924 the Ada Telephone Company installed a system of automatic ringing.

July 1, 1924 air mail service for Ada became effective.

August 1924 the F.&M. picnic was being held at Community Park for the first time since it became public property. Fred Shaw was president.

Winner of Lions choice award

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Dave and Kim Smittle's 1947 MG TC was picked for the Lions choice award at this past weekend's antique car show in Bluffton.

The Bluffton Lions Club hosts the annual show. The Lions choice award is determined by a vote of Lion members who volunteer at the car show. Nearly 200 vehicles were entered this year.

Smittles entered their 1947 and their 1953 MGs in the show (see photo below). The best of show was another British vehicle, a 1955 bright red Sunbeam Alpine. The vehicle is owned by John Rundfuss of Bucyrus.

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