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Last Week at Ohio Northern:

  Men's Cross Country - No Team Scoring at NCAA III Championships
  Men's Basketball - Won 72-60 H v Adrian (Mich.)
  Women's Basketball - Won 66-46 H v Kenyon; Won 87-80 (ot) at Adrian (Mich.)
  Wrestling - Won 21-13 at Davidson (N.C.)

This Week's Schedule:

Tueesday
  Women's Basketball -  H v Defiance, 5:30
  Men's Basketball -  H v Defiance, 7:30

A visit from Santa,
 a Christmas sing-along,  
  a jazz band concert,
   book discussion groups,
    plenty of potlucks,
     a chance to create a gingerbread house, 
      plus several interesting performances at The Freed Center.

That's just a glimpse of events taking place in Ada during December and January. The Icon's Ada Highlights calendar covering all the events we could find in December and January is now posted on The Icon.

We've provided Icon viewers a printer-friendly attachment at the bottom of this story.

The dirt is moving on State Route 81 west of Ada. Construction is now underway for a 55,000-square-foot retirement community across from Ada schools. Once completed, the facility will have 50 beds. Construction is taking place on an 18.5 acre site.

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Twenty-five school years ago, 1989-90 school year to be exact, these were the  Ada High School Student Council officers.

From left: Matt Heister, president; Troy Hazelton, treasurer; Sharon Guy, corresponding secretary; Amy Reese, recording secretary; Colby Dearth, vice president; and David Lusk, advisor.

The Hardin County American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 1:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University.

To schedule an appointment, call 1-800-Red-Cross (1-800-733-2767 or go online to www.redcrossblood.org. Eligibility rules for giving blood are also noted on the website.

A line of strong thunderstorms is track across western Ohio this morning mixing down very
strong winds aloft.

At 7:45 a.m. radar indicated a line strong thunderstorms extending from Union City, Ohio
to Greensburg, Ind. This line of storms was moving to the northeast at 50 m.p.h. and will impact portions of western Ohio (Lima, Ottawa, Findlay, Kenton) with gusts as high as 65 m.p.h. in the next several hours.

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