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By Leland Crouse
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Here’s an updated photo of Anna Fleming, Ada, as she closed the Bible as chaplain for the day at a meeting of the Blue Star Mothers, during the fall state conference.

Anna has belongs to the Blue Star Mothers since 1957 when a chapter was started in Ada.

Her son, Barclay, served in the army in Germany; son, Gerald, served in Alaska with the army, and her otherson, Edward, spent 20 years in the navy.

Established a scholarship in chemistry in memory of her daughters

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Inara (Mencis) Brubaker, 81, died at 8:35 p.m. on July 2, 2019, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, Ohio, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. 

She was born in Riga, Latvia, on May 1, 1938, to the late Arnolds and Herta (Stebers) Mencis. 

She was preceded in death by her daughters, Erika J. Brubaker and Andra E. Brubaker, in 1993.

 Inara emigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, and graduated from Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio. She retired in 2002 from the UOP/AlliedSignal (now Honeywell International) Research Center.

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FROM BLUFFTON ICON - You'll find this antique doll at rest on an 1840s-era bed in the Swiss Community Historical Society's Schumacher homestead, 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton.

The homestead is open each Saturday in the summer from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is $5. The tour takes you back in time where you may see how Swiss settlers lived.

Click here for details on the homestead and the society.

77-mile venture included sighting bald eagles, beavers, native American drawings on rock ledge

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Five members from Ada Boy Scout Troop 124 completed a 10-day high adventure canoe trip to Northern Tier Canoe Base in Ely, Minnesota.

Northern Tier is a canoe base owned by the BSA and is on the Boundary Waters between Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba. The five members attending were Isaac Spar, Dexter Woods III, Jacob Butterfield, and adult leaders Don Spar, and Tom Lehman.

Over the course of 10 days, eight spent on the water, the group canoed over
77 miles and portaged there canoes around 17 times, one portage being over a
mile.  All food, clothing, and equipment for the eight days was carried in
the canoes and portaged over land.

Moved to King-Horn Field House due to weather concerns

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The Patriotic Pops Concert, featuring the Lima Symphony Concert, at Ohio Northern University at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, will be moved indoors, to the ONU King-Horn Field House, due to the threat of thunderstorms.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and bring lawn chairs, blankets and favorite picnic foods. This fun-filled family event will feature patriotic music, selections from musicals and other stage and film productions, popular tunes and a tribute to our armed forces.

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Here's an update on what's happening inside the Ada municipal building during its major renovation. Among photos in this series includes the elevator well and some three-level thick brick walls.

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