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Jon Umphress provided the Icon with this interesting photo of Ada's "Hello Girls," taken in 1948. These were employees of the telephone company in Ada. The photo was taken during the office Christmas party.

Left to right: Mabel Caudler, Ethel Stauffer, Betty Lu Hunsicker. Bonnie Hunsicker, Ruth Baughman, Gladys Myers, Allen High, Hallie Long, "Bink" Cunningham," Verna Lantz, Ruby Phillips, Gladys Binkley, Lizzie Wood and John Lantz, manager.

As the summer reading program continues its countdown

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Summer continues to rock at the Ada Public Library.

The summer reading program for youth and adults is in full swing. The library's Facebook page keeps everyone up-to-date on activities this summer.

The page includes dozens of photos of summer activities.

To view those photos click here.

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Noteworthy Community Choir performs during Saturday's Lima Symphony Orchestra patrotic pops concert at ONU. (Monty Siekerman photo)

Lima Symphony Orchestra presents its 4th annual patrotic pops concert here

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Photos and story by Monty Siekerman
For the fourth year, Crafton Beck, Lima Symphony Orchestra music director, conducts the Lima Symphony Orchestra—but this will be his last year doing so since he is retiring from the LSO next season.

He plans to spend more time composing and will continue to direct the Mississippi State Symphony. Beck has served as LSO music director for the past 22 years.

The LSO has had only two directors in its 50-year history. His farewell concert will be next April.

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Kirsten Osbun-Manley sings the National Anthem to begin the Patriotic Pops Concert on Saturday evening on the sculpture mall at Ohio Northern. In spite of a heat index approaching 100 degrees at the start of the program, the crowd came, carrying lawn chairs, to hear the two-hour 4th of July concert by the Lima Symphony Orchestra, which is directed by Crafton Beck (right). More photos of the pleasant evening, attended by more than 700 people, will appear in the Ada Icon tomorrow. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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Visitors can choose to participate in unstructured and/or structured activities during the Richard S. “Doc” Phillips Discovery Center Open House on Saturday, July 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Oakwoods Nature Preserve. 

Activities and attractions include bird watching via the Windows on Wildlife, mounted animals and live animals on display, nature videos, field guides and nature books for reading, touch table and puppets, and seasonal displays and exhibits.

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