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It's going to be rainy in Ada this weekend.

The Icon welcomes viewers photos of anticipated high waters. Send them to: [email protected]

Here's what the National Weather Service website says about the weekend in Ada:

Showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after midnight. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 62. East wind 13 to 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Ada Kiwanis Club-sponsored American Red Cross swimming lessons are set for the weeks of July 6th and 13th from 11 a.m. to noon at the Ada pool.

The will be a swimming lesson meeting Monday, June 29, from 9 –11 a.m. at the home of Bruce and Sandy Neely. 

The annual membership drive for the Ada Music Boosters is now underway.

With the help of the Ada community, the music boosters are able to enhance music education and the performance-based programming for the Ada Exempted Village Schools. 

Here's what the booster say about the membership drive:

We purchase choir robes, band uniforms, instruments, Varsity Singers costumes, props and music and support our State and regional award-winning winter guards, marching bands and show choir.

Story and photo by Amy Eddings

The stereotype of country living is that everyone knows everyone else’s business. That didn’t hold true for neighbors of a new pig barn being built in Hancock County, less than a quarter mile from Hardin County resident Liz Vogt.

“I walk their creek,” she said of the Daft family farm. “I saw that [crews] were digging. I thought I’d go up and see what they were doing. I thought, wouldn’t it be nice if they were building a new barn."

That thought quickly vanished when Vogt learned from construction workers that Bo Daft was indeed building a new barn — a pig barn — for up to 2,500 pigs.

AEP provided The Icon with the following weather alert for today and Tuesday (June 22-23).

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are expected to impact northwestern Ohio 
this afternoon and tonight. Both rounds have the potential to cause widespread wind damage.

Round 1 This afternoon-early evening: At 9 a.m. radar shows a complex of severe thunderstorms racing across eastern Minnesota/eastern Iowa. This will reach northern Indiana as a squall line (gusts up to 80 mph) early this afternoon.

ReStore has the perfect basket for the Fourth of July and all Icon viewers have a chance to win it.

The basket winner’s name will be drawn from a raffle taking place at 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 30. Tickets are on sale for $1 each at ReStore, 210 N. Main St.

Proceeds from the raffle go to the ReStore floor-refinishing project.

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