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January 2017

Teen Dating Violence Awareness makes its statement

Sponsored by Hardin County Family Safety Coalition
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

By Monty Siekerman
Many basketballs were raffled off to win pizzas at the Teen Dating Violence Awareness event during the JV and varsity boys basketball games in Ada on Saturday evening.

Here, Kylie Guagenti gathers the balls together.

Another set of mini balls were tossed out to the crowd at halftime of the varsity game. Players for both teams wore orange socks, which is the group's color.

The Hardin County Family Safety Coalition sponsored the event to discourage teen dating violence.

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University coaches panel offers Super Bowl preview on Feb. 4

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Football coaches from Ada, Bluffton, Findlay, and Lima will give their analysis on the Super Bowl game during the The  Made-in-Ada Wilson Football Festival the day before the Big Game between the New England Patriots (AFC champs) and the Atlanta Falcons (NFC champs).

Who might win, what are the prospects, the strengths and weaknesses of each team? Find out from some local experts.

The panel is at 4:30 p.m. in ONU's McIntosh Center Bear Cave.

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Iconoclast bakery: Warm a cold winter night with Icon Monopoly Clam Chowder

Our version has a sort-of Super Bowl tie-in
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

One thing I love about a seaside vacation is seafood.

So, here it is winter in Ohio – no sea in sight. What’s a guy to do?

Here’s my answer:  Create Icon Monopoly Clam Chowder.

It’s so easy that after creating it, I wondered why it took me so long to realize that I don’t need the seacoast to enjoy it.

The only decision need prior to creating your own Icon chowder is – which version, Manhattan (with tomatoes) or New England (no tomatoes).

In honor of the approaching Super Bowl, I chose New England. Here's what you need:

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Letter: Provide sanctuary to refugees

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Icon viewers:

Donald Trump's recent executive order bars entry to refugees for 120 days,
and to those from Syria indefinitely. It blocks visitors for 90 days from
seven countries.

Refugees are among the most vulnerable people on the planet. Many have
suffered unimaginably. In the United States is a nation of refugees and
immigrants.

I hope that our representatives in Congress and in Ohio will pressure
President Trump to reverse this order. Meanwhile, I hope within Ada, we all
work to show international students, immigrants and refugees that they are
welcome and valued in our community.

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ONU women now 6th in the nation

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

By Caleb Scott

ADA — The Ohio Northern women's basketball team has moved up two spots to No. 6 in the ninth weekly D3Hoops.com poll, released Monday evening.

Northern stayed perfect on the season after an overtime victory at Wilmington and a defeating Capital at the ONU Sports Center last week.

Northern (19-0) is one of eight unbeaten teams in the poll.

Tufts (Mass.) held on to the No. 1 spot with 613 points and 15 first place votes, while Amherst (Mass.) remained at No. 2 with 601 points and six first place votes and St. Thomas (Minn.) moved into third place with 565 points and one first place vote.

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The big game is Wednesday night

Unbeaten and ranked-6th-nationally-ONU women entertain 16-3 Baldwin Wallace
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The undefeated ONU women's basketball team has a major contest on Wednesday evening that may go a long way in determining the conference championship and the team's national ranking.

Tip off time is 7:30 p.m. In the ONU Sports Center for the ONU-Baldwin Wallace game. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for seniors.

BW is 16-3 overall and in second place in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 9-3 record.

ONU is tops in the conference and continues to climb in the Division III polls nationally, now ranking 6.

In their first contest this season, ONU bested BW 60-55 in Berea.

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ONU to host question-and-answer session with Indians senior vice president of public relations, radio announcer

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

ADA — Robert “Bob” DiBiasio, the Cleveland Indians senior vice president of public affairs, and Jim Rosenhaus, the Indians radio announcer, will conduct a question-and-answer session from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. on Feb. 7 in James F. Dicke Hall on the campus of Ohio Northern University. The event is free and open to the public.

DiBiasio, who has been with the Indians for more than 30 years, and Rosenhaus, who has been broadcasting the Indians since 2007, will discuss their respective roles with the Cleveland Indians, as well as the current state of the defending American League champion Indians.

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ONU Society of Collegiate Journalists hear about Ada Icon

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Ada Icon Editor Monty Siekerman spoke to the ONU chapter of the Society of Collegiate Journalists on Monday at the Freed Center, saying:

•The Icon meets the needs of the community by informing readers about events and people of interest to them.
•The Icon is highly successful with 28,000 pages read in January alone, up 42 percent from a year ago.
•it was named Business of the Year in 2016 by the Chamber of Commerce.
•The Ada Icon has 60 advertisers to support it.
•The Icon posts more than 50 news stories, with photographs, each week, which is digging out a lot of news in a community with 5,000 people and a campus of 3,200.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

 

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse

[email protected]

1892 North School construction was started on North Main Street.

Feb. 25, 1903 the First National Bank had an adding machine.

Feb. 1918 the Ohio Northern Service flag, World War 1, containing 225 names was unfurled during a special chapel service.

 

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Border patrol agents in Ada?

Yes - at the ONU career fair
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 30, 2017

By Monty Siekerman
When I told friends that I had met two border patrol agents in Ada, the response was, "Why are they in Ada?"

The agents were at the ONU career fair to recruit more agents: 1,200 are needed immediately and perhaps many thousand more will be hired, if President Trump's plans come to fruition...and the pay is good.

Starting salaries are about $40,000, including overtime and weekend pay. After only four years, agents can look for $90,000 to $100,000 annually.

You don't have to be a college graduate to be hired.

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