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There's a story behind every license plate

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Is this your license plate? Or, your neighbor's? Or, do you know who drives around Ada with this plate.

CLICK ON PLATE TO ENLARGE.

For the past several weeks, The Ada Icon has featured a vanity plate discovered on Ada's streets. These random, drive-by shootings (with our camera) are simply for fun, but we know there's always a story behind every license plate. The problem is that we don't know that story. We also don't know the license plate owner.

As we continue to post these random plates of the week, we welcome Icon viewers to log on to the comment section of the story. 

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Q: How many nations in the world have had viewers on The Ada Icon? A: It will surprise you!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, August 23, 2012

A letter to Ada Icon readers:

In mid-September The Ada Icon will be six months old. We like to take a moment and share with viewers some of the interesting stats about we’ve experienced in our first six months.

These are according to Google Analytics:
7,450 total visits to the site
3,474 individual viewers (some check in twice a day!)
20,322 pages visited
2.73 pages views per each visit
1:56 average time spent on The Icon on each visit
469 visitors to the site during the week of Aug. 5-11
     (that’s our highest weekly viewer count - we're really happy about this number!)

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Chris North in Dominican Republic: "Maybe there is a lesson to be learned from these people"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, August 16, 2012

"We in America have so much and want more and are miserable because we don't have what we want.  The Dominican people have so little and are so grateful for what they do have.  Maybe there is a lesson to be learned from these people."

Those are the words of Chris North. She's back in Dominican Republic. The Ada Icon has permission to link to her blog, which shows photos and tells about the experiences of her present trip.

For North's thoughs on a typical day of a rural Dominican, click here.

North is Director of Communication Studies Program at Ohio Northern University.

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Part IV of NFL Preview: The AFC and NFC West divisions

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, August 5, 2012

Part IV of NFL Preview: The AFC and NFC West divisions
By Jake Dowling, Icon intern
Click here for earlier previews
AFC West
Denver Broncos, 8-8, won division, lost in divisional round

The Coach- John Fox enters his second season as head coach and no other year may be a better year than 2012 for him to get his team back in the Super Bowl for the first time since he was coach of the Carolina Panthers in 2003 when they lost to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXIII.

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Remember WOWO and CKLW? Dennis "Ben" Herr remembers

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, July 26, 2012

President Harold Friesner called the 38th meeting (July 17th) of the 2011–2012 Ada Kiwanis year to order at 12:06 p.m. at McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University, Ada.
The Invocation was given by Jon Umphress.
Dennis Herr was welcomed as a guest.

The birthday of John Berg (July 25th) was noted in song,
In business:
-The F&M Picnic will be held on Saturday August 11th. The club will assist with the peal tractor Pull.
-The Ohio District Kiwanis Convention will be held August 10th to 12th in Boardman. The club will prepare a silent auction basket for fundraiser at the convention.

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Historic Lima-built steam locomotive rides again!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, July 23, 2012

Lima-built steam locomotive Nickel Plate 765 is on the move in Ohio and Indiana this summer. After a weekend excursion on the old Nickel Plate mainline several other opportunities exist to view this famous locomotive that once made frequent trips through nearby Bluffton.

Owned by the Ft. Wayne Railroad Historical Society, steam locomotive no. 765 embarks on one of its busiest excursion season in recent history. July through September will see the 765 operating special passenger trains  for Norfolk Southern’s 30th anniversary, hosting employees and their families across the northern routes of its system.

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