The Icon gets but one chance a year to fool viewers.
That chance was yesterday, on April 1. Sometimes we win and other times, it's rather ho-hum.
Judging by the responses from this year's story, it was, well, not even ho-hum. It was a dud.
Spoiler alert: There is no truth to the fact that a voter initiative may go on the ballot to create a surcharge on all types of Ohio vanity license plates.
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada softball team plated nine first inning runs and cruised to a 13-1 blowout of Cory-Rawson in non-conference play on a rainy but warm Thursday evening.
The purple and gold improved to 2-1 with the lopsided win.
"Leona Dalton pitched a good game," said Ada head coach Rebecca Dicke. "All of her pitches were working well. We were able to get a lot of young players important playing experience. They have to develop confidence and be aggressive."
By Cort Reynolds
ADA - The host Ada baseball team broke a fifth inning tie on a wild pitch and held on to defeat Cory-Rawson 2-1 in non-league action Thursday evening.
Ada improved to 3-2 with the non-league victory, while the Hornets fell to 1-2 with the loss.
With the score tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Zac Swaney doubled to right-center field. He advanced to third base on a groundout. After a strikeout, Swaney scampered home on a two-out, two-strike wild pitch to put the Bulldogs in front.
One of Andrew Allen's Saturday morning assignments was to make certain everyone eating pancakes at the Kiwanis pancake event had enough syrup. Watch the Icon Tuesday for more photos.
15 minutes with Professor John Lomax
Interviewed by Liz Gordon-Hancock
John Phillip Lomax was born at St. Catherine’s Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 9, 1952, as the rampaging Missouri River was just about to crest. His dad was sandbagging the levee in Council Bluffs as his mom gave birth at St. Catherine’s, high atop the bluff on the Omaha side.
He received his bachelor's degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1974, his mastor's from the University of Chicago in 1975, and then his doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1987.
Thomas E. Coe, 80, died on Sunday, March 31, 2019, at 6:33 a.m. at Mercy Health St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima, Ohio.
He was born on Aug. 11, 1938, in Willard, Ohio, to the late James and Corinne (Greer) Coe. On Oct. 17, 1959 Tom married Ann Lowry and she survives in Bluffton.
Tom was an educator for over 30 years for Ada High School and Allen East High School prior to retiring. He was a member of the Ada First United Methodist Church.
