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In this extreme weather?

An update:
• The men's basketball game was delayed an hour due to the Muskingum bus arriving late due to road conditions. ONU won before a good sized crowd who braved the elements.

• Viva Maria diners filled the restaurant on Valentine's Day in spite of the snow and cold.

• Life goes on in spite of what Old Man Winter is throwing at us.

Ohio Northern University was awarded the 2015 Special Recognition in Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Award as part of United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Awards at the USASBE National Conference held in Tampa, Fla., from Jan. 22-25.

Each year, the award is given to up to three individuals or their respective institutions for innovation in entrepreneurship education at one or a combination of these levels: teaching, scholarship and outreach. ONU competed against Monmouth University and University of Texas Dallas.

Whether boot cut, relaxed fit, skinny, slim fit, straight cut, low-rise or whatever, Emmelina Bales collected jeans at Ada High School this winter.

The Ada High School senior jeans collection is part of a “Teens of Jeans” drive. With the drive now over, 144 pair of jeans were collected and delivered to Aeropostale in the Lima Mall - the collection point for the project.

Click here for Ada Icon's first story on this project.

Here's a summary in Emmelina's words:

Thank heavens for Valentine's Day.

OPEN THE PHOTO ALBUM AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

Love was in the air on Saturday, just in advance of the famous February event during Community Health Professionals gift show and salad buffet The event included food and local vendors displaying great gift ideas for Valentine's Day. 

Profits from the event assist the organization's hospice care fund.

Frosty and his friends showed up in Ada this week. The Icon cell phone camera guy (aka Monty Siekerman) talked with several of these Ada guests.

He files this report:

413 Oak St.
This yard looks like a lunar landscape, but may be a collection of giant snowballs or unfinished work of snowman builders.

430 N. Johnson St. 
A sprig of pine serves as hair for this snowman.

Leftover snow
What do you do with leftover snow? You make a four-snowball snowman.

809 S. Main St. 
Here is a family of three snowmen Looks like one ran through a thicket. 

Q: Do you know how the Ada Public Library got its start?

A: Would you believe the restroom of old town hall of Ada? 

Why: A few books were placed in the restroom of the old town hall for the country women to read while waiting there.

That's what Amanda Bennett of the Ada Public Library told members of the Ada Kiwanis Club on Jan. 20. There more:

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