February 2013

By Tim Glon

Junior Mathew Johnson was third in the 1-mile and fourth in the 3k to lead the Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team at the All-Ohio Championships on Saturday afternoon at Otterbein's Rike Center.

The Polar Bears (24-7 overall) scored 48.5 points, less than a point from a top-3 finish.

Mount Union won the team title with 111.5 points, Ohio Wesleyan was second with 73 points and Otterbein and Baldwin Wallace tied for third with 49 points each.

Johnson finished third in the 1-mile run in 4:25.36 and was fourth in the 3,000-meter run in 8:54.92.

This week's Ada Icon poll asks the question, "Should the United States stop producing the penny?" We pose the question since Canada has decided to quit producing its penny. We invite viewers to provide opinions by voting in the current Icon poll.

Here is the basic breakdown of the penny debate.  This is a synopsis of this article on About.com. http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/i/penny_debate.htm

Yes Penny

Becky Neville of Century 21 Beacon Realty, Ada, announces one of its recent listing. The listing is a residence at 9760 Reservoir Road, Harrod.

The three-bedroom, two-bath residence is listed at $108,900. For complete details open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Reservations are now being accepted for two special February events at The Inn at ONU. The first is a Valentine's Day food and wine pairing event planned at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 14. The second is a Friday, Feb. 22, dinner mystery theater at 7 p.m.

Feb. 14 food-wine pairing
There is no better way to spend Valentine's Day than at a special food and wine pairing event. Several courses of food will be expertly paired with fine wines.
Morgen Stiegler and Chris Buzzelli, jazz duo, will perform during the evening.