October 2014

Due to the unexpected cancellation of school last week two events were rescheduled for Monday, Nov. 3. Those events follow:

School Pictures:
Junior high and high school pictures have been rescheduled for Monday, Nov. 3. This includes senior composite pictures. Senior composite pictures for Apollo students only will begin at 7 a.m. in the band room. All other seniors will be called per public address announcement during first period. Picture retakes have been rescheduled for Dec. 2.

Ohio Northern University’s Phi Beta Delta honorary society for international scholars presents a lecture by Jesus Ramirez in the Dicke Forum on Monday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. The title of Ramirez’s lecture is “Air Pollution, Ozone and Climate Change.”

Ramirez is with the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, and he is the group leader of the Institute of Meteorology and the multidisciplinary group on ozone. Part of his responsibilities involves making daily forecasts for the entire country concerning environmental and climatological effects on major Cuban crops.

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law presents Cynthia C. Dungey, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), as part of its Dean’s Lecture Series in the Moot Courtroom at noon on Thursday, Nov. 13. The title of Dungey’s presentation is “Law: A Key to A Locked Door.”

Dungey graduated from ONU’s College of Law in 1996. As director of the ODJFS, she oversees a $3.7 billion agency with approximately 3,000 employees. ODJFS is responsible for supervising the state’s public assistance, workforce development, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs.

By Torie Wright, Icon intern

An elderly woman is said to have died in the room that became my son’s nursery. I never really experienced anything bone-chillingly creepy until after I gave birth to James.

One night however, when James was only a few months old, noise through the baby monitor roused me from sleep, which was nothing out of the ordinary. As I was crawling out of bed, though, I realized that something wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t my son’s crying that woke me up; someone was singing a lullaby.