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October 2014

Dellifield takes Send Cancer on a Run 2 to TCS NY Marathon

Since running his first marathon in 2009, David Dellifield has had a goal of running the TCS New York City marathon. When he received his guaranteed entry into the 2014 NYC Marathon through the race's lottery, he launched Send Cancer on a Run 2: All the way to the Big Apple.

Northern Winds perform Russian music Oct. 26 at Freed Center

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening of Russian music featuring the Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m.

The Northern Winds, under the direction of Thomas A. Hunt, will perform a concert of Russian music for winds and percussion. The program includes works by Gliere, Prokofiev, Kozhevnikov and Shostakovich. The soloist for the Gliere horn concerto is ONU senior Brandon Guillen, a mathematical statistics major from Lima, Ohio.

ONU receives EPA grant to fund limestone project

The T.J. Smull College of Engineering has received a $15,000 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund “The Lowering CO2 Emission and Making Concrete More Environmentally Friendly by Adding Limestone” project.

Under the supervision of Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Bryan Boulanger, associate professor of civil engineering, Ohio Northern civil engineering students will spend the year investigating a design to make concrete more environmentally friendly by adding limestone.

Christmas Around the Square Nov. 8 at the Hardin County courthouse

The 28th annual Christmas Around the Square Craft Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, November 8 in the Hardin County Historic Courthouse in downtown Kenton.

Sponsored by the Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance, the craft fair features arts, crafts, and home party dealers. The Harco Choir will perform holiday music at 9:30 a.m.and Dance Fuzion will perform on the west side of the courthouse at 10 a.m. Food is provided by the Hardin County Homemakers.

The annual basket auction begins at 11 a.m. in Veteran’s Hall. The auction features 30 baskets filled with gift items. 

One more homecoming court - from 15 years ago

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Members of the 1999 Ada High School homecoming court from left, Chelsey Hood, freshman; Jennifer Dye, sophomore; Elisa Lenssen, junior;  Erin Reichert, senior queen; Kristin Zsembik, senior attendant; and Susan Beckley, senior attendant. Escorts, not photographed were Tom Martin, freshman, Joe Wobler, sophomore, Bill Putt, junior, and seniors Mark Conley and Jeff Keifer. The homecoming king was Quinn Pifer.

Liberty Township experienced 24 inches of rain during 2014 growing season

By Mark Badertscher, OSU Extension Educator

During the month of September, Hardin County Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 2.08 inches of rain.The most rain for this month, 3.58 inches, fell in Liberty Township, as measured by Phil Epley. 

The least rain reported during the month, 1.05 inches, was reported in Taylor Creek Township by Silver Creek Supply.  During the same month last year, an average of 3.23 inches of rain fell.  The rainfall recorded in September over the past 10 years averaged 3.70 inches. 

Ada Whiz Quiz team will be on Channel 44

Champions have been crowned in the TV-44 Whiz Quiz Tournament with Van Wert and St. Marys claiming top title in each respective tournament bracket. The annual televised event included 30 high school quiz teams, divided evenly  into two different brackets, each bracket with three days of competition until crowning a champion.

Bracket one, aka, the Fall Whiz Quiz Tournament, included the following teams: Coldwater, Patrick Henry, Riverdale, Delphos St. Johns, Elida, Paulding, Versailles, Van Wert, Findlay, New Bremen, Shawnee, Bellefontaine, Continental, Arcadia and Allen East.

ONU prof has book signing on Saturday AM

Darrin Snyder Belousek will sign his recently released book “The Road That I Must Walk: A Disciple’s Journey,” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to Saturday, Oct. 18, at Book Reviews, 123 S. Main St., Bluffton, according to Christina Walton, store manager.

The book is published by Cascade Books.

The author is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Ohio Northern University. He is also an adjunct instructor in the Department of Religion at Bluffton University.

Guadete Brass Quintet to perform at ONU Oct. 24

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the Gaudete Brass Quintet in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24. 
           
The Chicago-based Gaudete Brass Quintet performs works by contemporary composers Eric Ewazen, Joan Tower, John David Sampson and John Cheetham as well as works from the Renaissance by De Wert and Praetorius.

ONU to present discussion on "Living both faith and science"

Ohio Northern University Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Office of the Chaplain will present a discussion on “Living Both Faith and Science” in the English Chapel at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. The event is free and open to the public.

This event will be a conversation about the relationship between science and religion. In contemporary society, many think that science and religion are “at war” with each other. However, scholars have challenged this view as overly simplistic. This “conflict view” neglects the ways that religion and science historically have been sometimes complementary and, at other times, in competition.

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