January 2015

Last Week at Ohio Northern:

   Men's Basketball - Lost 73-79 at Bethany (W.Va.); Lost 58-70 at Trine (Ind.)
   Women's Basketball - Lost 50-61 at Case Western Reserve
   Wrestling - 1st of 8 at Waynesburg (Pa.) Invitational

This Week's Schedule:

2014 will be remembered for several things, but the thing most area residents will remember is the “Winter of 2014.”

Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, provided The Icon with the 2014 summary with comparisons back to 2006.

Beulah Mae (Spar) Hays, 90, died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, at 3:15 a.m. at her residence in rural Ada, Ohio.

She was born on Oct. 21, 1924 at home in Ada, to Jesse Roy and Caroline M. (Clark) Spar who preceded her in death. On May 30, 1948, she married Ralph D. Hays and he preceded her in death on Jan. 27, 2010.

Mrs. Hays was a full time farmer’s wife and mother. She graduated from Bliss Business College in Columbus, Ohio, in accounting and then from the Lima Memorial School of Nursing through the Cadet Nurse Program. She worked as an RN at Lima Memorial Hospital and Gibbons Hospital in Celina, Ohio.

By Laura Finley

It’s 2015. People everywhere are making resolutions…lose weight, read more, quit smoking, etc. To resolve is the act of finding an answer or solution to a problem.

Yet most of our resolutions are never achieved. According to Marti Hope Gonzales, Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, just six weeks after making a resolution, 80 percent of people either have broken them or cannot even recall what they resolved. And of course, we feel like losers when we don’t achieve these goals.