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Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center is pleased to announce the 2019 Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Scholarship Program is now accepting applications. The program for high school seniors graduating in the spring of 2019, allocates $1,500 scholarships to students from our community and region who are interested in pursuing careers as medical professionals.

Students in Allen, Auglaize, Hardin, Hancock, Logan, Mercer, Paulding, Putnam, Shelby and Van Wert counties may apply. Applications can be found at more than 70 high schools and career centers around the 10 county districts.

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So, you think you know Ada? Okay, let's start playing a little game. We'll call it "Where the heck is this?"

The rules are simple:
1 - The Icon posts a photo showing a portion of an object or location inside the village limits of Ada.

2 - Try to figure out where or what it is.

3 - Click on the link here (or go to the classified page) and discover the answer. We will provide a larger photo of the weekly object in question on the classified page.

Good luck!

She had celebrated her 101th birthday in July

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Dolores J. Smith, 101, of Ada, Ohio, formerly of Kenton, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, at 1:55 p.m. at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

She was born on July 24, 1917, in Flint, Mich., to the late Albert B. and Gretchen (Woods) Trafelet.  On Dec. 30, 1943, Dolores married Harry Curtis Smith, Jr., and he preceded her in death on June 6, 2014.

Dolores retired from Ohio Northern University, Ada, where she had worked as a librarian. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Ada and Kenton.  She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Chapter #364 of Kenton.

Special-interest programs on Wednesday and Saturday

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Two special programs open to the public are on the Ada Public Library calendar this week.

The History of Warfare
The first of a multi-part series on The History of Warfare, presented by John Lomax, retired professor of history at Ohio Northern University, takes place Wednesday.

The initial program is from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13, which centers on “Germanic tribal warfare.”  The series continues with programs at the same time on the following Wednesdays:

• Feb. 27 – Chivalric warfare
• March 6 – Gunpowder revolution
• March 13 – Industrial total warfare
• March 20 – Asymetric warfare

Between 800 and 900 expected for annual convergence on ONU campus

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Mark Badertscher of the Hardin County extension office calls it the largest conference of its kind in the Midwest.

It's happening in Ada on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5-6, as the annual tillage and conservation conference comes to Ohio Northern University. During the conference, figuratively speaking, ONU changes its name to Corn University.

Badertscher expects 800 to 900 persons in attendance.

The conference will feature about 75 speakers on a wide range of topics. Here are a few highlights.

• Bob Nielsen, Purdue University, returns and speaks about on-farm research.

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Melissa Eddings Mancuso and daughters, Bella and Carmen, view the exhibit of art work by Ada High School artists on display this month in the front area of the Ada Public Library. The exhibit includes work by nearly 20 artists. In the children's section is an exhibit of elementary art.

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