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The Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Hardin County is celebrating the completion of its 10th year of existing in Hardin County. 

The library is a unique early years book gifting program that mails a brand new, age-appropriate book to enrolled children every month from birth until five years of age, creating a home library of up to 60 books and instilling a love of books and reading from an early age.

Any community in the USA, Canada, Australia or UK may replicate the Imagination Library and sponsor the regular gifting of books to every child under five in their community.

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Here are some photos of the work taking place by the village crew on the "flood-prone" section of North Simon Street in Ada. (Ken Collins photos)

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ReStore announced a "Re-Opening."

The Main Street community center closed on Dec. 17 as a new floor was installed over the holidays. The total project costs $15,000.

According to its Faceook announcement, here's the plan:

• We will have our grand re-opening at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 5.

 • We will open for our first community meal (Crock pot Tuesday) of 2016 at 4 p.m. and enjoy our beautiful brand new floor.
 

 

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PART OF BLANCHARD VALLEY
MEDICAL PRACTICES
Robert Schutz, MD, has joined Bluffton Women’s Care, 559 Harmon Road, Bluffton, part of Blanchard Valley Medical Practices.

Dr. Schutz provides obstetrics and gynecological care, and is accepting new and existing patients. He is joined at Bluffton Women’s Care by his longtime associates certified nurse midwives Tonya Fenzl and Shirley Cole.

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Here’s a year-end quiz to see just how much you know about Ada.
All of the questions in this quiz are based upon stories posted on the Ada Icon in 2015, and there are 14 possible points.

Scoring
Answer 4 or less: Do you really live here?
Answer 5 or 6: Hey, you are a serious Icon reader
Answer 7 or 8: Wow! You are in the know, congrats
Answer 9: You can create next year’s year-end quiz – probably now
Answer 10 or more: You either looked at the answers, or you are an Ada native

Questions

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Meanwhile, in Bluffton.

Yesterday the Ada Icon posted 12 photos representing events taking place in Ada during 2015. That photo series is now being shared with Bluffton viewers on the Bluffton Icon.

Likewise, the Bluffton Icon is sharing 12 photos of Bluffton with Ada Icon viewers. Those photos are in the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Happy new year from the Ada and Bluffton Icons.

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