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Bridge Home Health & Hospice, a nonprofit organization providing home health care and hospice services, will offer training courses for prospective volunteers beginning on Thursday, June 14.

The training will be held in the Hub Conference Room at Birchaven Village, 15100 Birchaven Lane, Findlay, and will take place for six consecutive Thursdays from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Courses will cover the basic principles of hospice, understanding the needs of patients and their families, effective communication, patient care, pain and symptom management, spiritual care giving and understanding grief and loss.

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Exotic Zoo came to Ada on Monday. Ken Collins was there and shares this photo. For more photos and a story about the visit, click here.

 

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at ONU HealthWise - lots of games, prizes and health info

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ONU HealthWise invites Icon viewers to a community health carnival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, June 9.

It takes place on the ONU campus between the Robertson-Evans pharmacy building and Mathile. Persons may enter the Raabe parking lot from Lincoln Avenue.

Here’s the events planned:

Games and activities for all ages:
 • Corn hole
• Coloring and crafts
• Carnival games, such as ring toss, disk shoot, lucky duck
• Photos with Klondike
• Health and Wellness activity card

Chances to win prize
• Door prizes for attending
• Complete your activity card and win game tickets

In former Ada Herald office

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By Monty Siekerman
His enthusiasm for art is readily apparent when talking with Justin Niles, the man who will do your tattoo or sell you some of his art whether it be something to frame, a work with leather, or a sculpture.

Justin, who lives in Findlay with his wife, Julie, and three kids, can be found at a new business in Ada that opened on Friday.

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For the sixth consecutive season, the Ohio Northern men's and women's cross country teams will begin the season at the Bluffton Invitational on Aug. 31.

The race is set to begin at 6 p.m. at the Bluffton Nature Preserve.

After opening the season at area-foe Bluffton, the Polar Bears will travel to Calvin (Mich.) to compete in the Knight Invitational on Sept. 8 before competing in the Pre-Regional Meet hosted in Shelbyville, Ind. on Sept. 15.

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It's 1942.

Lowell Reese, former Ada high school athlete and later was the coach of the Bulldogs with the first undefeated, untied team in the school’s history in 1942.

Front row- Richard Smith, Ralph Keller, Gerald Motter, Robert Gobin, Fred Chaney, Evan Simon, Merrill Keller, William Hawley.

Middle row- Coach Lowell Reese, Richard Deringer, Lloyd VanAtta, Richard Carmean, Charles Yearsley, Ralph Sousley, John Elliott, Lewis Good, Harry Banks, Harry Sousley, Robert Stair.

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