The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce Harvest and Herb Festival Queen Committee would like to give a huge thank you to Mike and Marie Gossman for helping to decorate the float again this year and for escorting our 2017 Harvest and Herb Queen and her court in the 32nd Annual Ada Area Chamber of Commerce Harvest and Herb Festival parade.
Students at Ready, Set, Grow Pre-school established a new art style, using a traditional blackboard. Three of the young artists demonstrated the technique last week for the Icon.
By Monty Siekerman
An initial meeting to form a local historical society drew great interest when 11 Ada citizens gathered at the Ada Public Library on Monday evening.
The group considered a name, applying for nonprofit status, discussed what history is located where, considered having a presence on a website and Facebook, and other organizational matters.
The group represented both local townspeople and the university: people who collect history, longtime residents, the ONU archivist, a history professor and student majoring in history, community leaders, and others.
Enchanting, engaging, enthralling are three descriptions that can be used to describe "Catapult," the Homecoming show at the Freed Center that played to a full house on Saturday night.
Eight professional dancers performed behind a large screen with their shadows forming all manner of objects such as animals, chairs, hearts, and flowers. Appropriate music was selected to accompany the scenes. Some of the themes were four seasons, life's milestones, and bullies.
By Monty Siekerman
On a bright, sunny morning several hundred people were lined up at 8 a.m. on Saturday to take advantage of the Wilson Sporting Goods sale that took place in a parking lot and warehouse near the manufacturing plant in Ada.
Name your sport: badminton, baseball, golf, basketball, tennis, and, of course, Ada-made Wilson footballs.
ADA -- Ohio Northern celebrated its Homecoming Weekend with a 35-7 football victory over Otterbein on a warm Saturday afternoon at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Polar Bears (2-1 overall, 1-1 Ohio Athletic Conference) used a dominating second half in the victory, holding the Cardinals (3-1, 2-1) to just 40 yards of total offense and one first down in the final 30 minutes.
Meanwhile the ONU offense would gain 243 yards of offense and score 22 points in the second half to put the game away.
