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By Paula Pyzik Scott
Icon owner-editor, [email protected], 567-400-4266

Last week, I visited Faithful Friends Cremations, a new business in Ada, Ohio. Patty Griffin has made a big investment to get this business off the ground and 1,459 of the Ada Icon's Facebook viewers checked out her story!

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UPDATE Approximately 100 customer outages shown at 8:00 a.m.

AEP Ohio has notified Bluffton area customers of power outages amid severe thunderstorm in the early hours of Saturday, September 5.

A total of 1,149 Customer Outages was shown stemming 2 Outage Cases.

Start Time: Sep 5, 2026 at 3:37 AM

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