FROM ADA ICON – After a week-end long investigation the Ada Police Department charged Dekari Tyre Ese Powell of Ada and Mansfield with two counts of Aggravated Robbery, felonies of the 1st degree, for his part in the armed robbery of three persons in Ada on Thursday, Jan 3, according to Michael Harnishfeger, Ada police chief.
According to reports, three separate individuals known to Powell were approached separately and robbed at gun point of cash, electronics and drugs.
Mennonite Memorial Home will host a free, one-hour presentation on Parkinson’s Disease on Thursday, Jan, 31. from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. The presentation provides CEUs for social workers and nurses. The public is also welcome to attend.
Here are the most popular baby names of the Bluffton area, born at Bluffton Hospital this year. Of the nearly one hundred reported to the Icon, the top names were Grace for a girl, and Owen, for a boy.
If you are overweight don't come to Bluffton. That's one of the messages at the village entrance on Grove Road. The new weight limit signs were recently installed by the county.
The Dough Hook, 117 N. Main St., starts the new year with three chances to enroll in the next Creative Crockpot Cooking class, according to Marlena Ballinger.
Each class is from 6 to 8 p.m. and class options are:
• Wednesday, Jan. 9
• Wednesday, Jan. 16
• Thursday, Jan. 31
“Participants will learn skills while creating some delicious meals,” she said. “Each participant will receive one meal in the crockpot and then take home three meals that will be ready for your freezer.”
Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery will host “Unspeakable Time, Art and Activism” by Sana Musasama. The series features a collection of ceramic mixed-media pieces that pose an inquiry into the nature of violence and healing in women’s lives.
