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February 2016

Get those Booster purse raffle tickets before they are gone

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 4, 2016

Looking for some warm winter fun?

The Ada Academic Boosters and Ada Music Boosters purse and jewelry raffle may be just what you need.

The raffle Sunday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. in McIntosh Center at Ohio Northern University. Doors open at 1 p.m. Pre-sale tickets are $20 each. Tickets at the door are $25 each.

According to the Boosters: Buy your tickets soon because tickets are limited.

Arlene Allision of the Boosters said, "Laugh your way through an afternoon of 15 Bingo games, quarter auctions, raffle prizes, door prizes, heavy hors’ d ‘ oeuvres and more. Can’t make it? How about some raffle tickets for a Michael Kors purse and wristlet." 

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Icon welcomes Reichert's as a new advertiser

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 4, 2016

The Icon welcomes Reichert's as its newest advertiser.

The business is located at 111-113 S. Main St., Ada. It offers clothing, shoes, active wear, formal wear rental, screen printing and embroidery.

It is current taking tuxedo rental orders for area proms. Its phone number is 419-634-2881.

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Sebok Lecture to focus on ‘Perfecting Your Practice: Continuous Professional Development’

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, February 4, 2016

John Armitstead, system director of pharmacy services at Lee Memorial Hospital in Ft. Meyers and Cape Coral, Fla., and the 2015 president of the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (ASHP), will be the guest speaker for the seventh annual Sebok Pharmacy Lecture presented by the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy. He is a 1979 graduate of the University’s College of Pharmacy. Armistead will deliver his lecture entitled, “Perfecting Your Practice: Continuous Professional Development,” in the ONU Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Feb. 12, at 1 p.m.

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Dean’s Lecture Series focus ‘Finding Your Niche: Creating and Growing Specialty Practice Area’

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, February 4, 2016

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law presents Andrew Kimler, experienced litigator and partner in the New York law firm Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP (VMM), as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series in the Celebrezze Moot Court Room on Thursday, Feb.11, at noon.

The title of Kimler’s presentation is “Finding Your Niche: Creating and Growing a Specialty Practice Area.” The event is free and open to the public.

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University to host pharmacy leadership summit

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Thursday, February 4, 2016

The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy will host a hospital pharmacy leadership summit at The Inn at ONU on Thursday, Feb. 11, beginning at 11 a.m.

This summit will allow for discussion of current hospital pharmacy hot topics. Each topic will be led by a leader in the field and presented to the attendees of the summit.

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How do you celebrate a 104th birthday? You sing "Happy Birthday!"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

What do you do when someone celebrates her 104th birthday?

You sing “Happy Birthday!”

That’s what the Bingo crowd at Community Health Professionals did on Wednesday for Ada resident Naudean Amidon. She will turn 104 on Feb. 5.

How do you top that? You don’t.

However, as a close second, you have Agnes Crates, also of Ada, give her friend, Naudean, a bouquet of flowers. Between the two women they’ve blown out birthday candles over 200 times. Agnes is 102.

Both women are avid Bingo players.

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Ada HS Sociology students reinvent Spirit Week

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Ada schools is in the midst of “Spirit Week.” It’s a result of a Sociology class discussion led by teacher Kristin Salyer. 

Adults reading this may have a different concept of “high school spirit” from their own school days than students of today have.

Students in Salyer’s junior and senior Sociology class at Ada High School recently focused on collective behavior. From that a discussion started on how and why social movements form.

Salyer said, “In one particular discussion, I gave students an assignment to talk to their parents about generational differences.

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Someone you know is on the Ada honor roll

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Here's the Ada school honor roll for the second nine-week grading period.

FOURTH GRADE ALL A:  Jackson Brown, Abid Khan, Autumn Andreasen, Olivia Burkhart, Dakota Gossman, Luke Limer, Ella Marshall and Josie Phillips

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ONU's Super Bowl Countdown offers fan prep for the game

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Have a Super Bowl question?

Ohio Northern University’s Super Bowl Countdown will provide football fans with lots of preparation in anticipation of this year’s game. The program, titled “ONU’s Super Bowl Countdown…Beyond the Broadcast,” is free and open to the public.

The Countdown is from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, in the McIntosh Center Activities Room.

Speakers include:
• Dean Paul, ONU head football coach. He will discuss halftime and sideline adjustments anticipated in the game.

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Groundhog's Day in Ada and look what's coming up

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 2, 2016

By Monty Siekerman

A rodent in a Pennsylvania berg indicated this morning that North America is in for an early spring.

That's good news unless you like to ski, skate, or own a lodge on a hill.

However, a local golden retriever predicts just the opposite, as she saw her shadow in Railroad Park at sunrise, meaning we are in for more cold weather.

But the retriever, named Abby, is a pup and hasn't learned all there is to know about prognostication.

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