ADA — The No. 7-ranked Ohio Northern women's basketball team will host a Hoops for Hope Breast Cancer Awareness game Saturday afternoon as it takes on Ohio Athletic Conference-foe, Capital.
The event will feature the annual Alumni Game at 12 pm on Saturday, followed by a luncheon.
As well as selling baked good prior to and during the contest, gift baskets will be raffled off in the third quarter of Saturday's game.
Tickets can be purchased before or during the game with the winners being announced during the third quarter of the contest.
Tickets will be for sale at $2 each, three for $5 or six tickets for $10.
Judith Greavu, art emerita at Ohio Northern University, recently had her work “Kinnegoe Bay Cross” installed in Deland, Florida.
Greavu also has installed “Arts Spirit” at The Deland Sculpture Walk near the Museum of Florida Art in Deland, Florida. This towering outdoor work evoked a dancing spectacle that suggested influences of Henry Moore and Louise Bourgeois.
Greavu’s works have been shown in numerous venues around the country. She has presented from Michigan to Florida and throughout Ohio, including Polk Museum Outdoor Sculpture Competition, The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the Everglades National Park, and the Midwest Sculpture Initiative.
Representatives from than 100 organizations were on hand Friday to talk with ONU students about their plans after college.
The fair was designed for students seeking both full and part-time employment as well as co-ops, internships, and admission to graduate and professional schools.
Here, Conner Fleck (left), a mechanical engineering major, chats with Jason Luthman, an ONU ME grad from 2016 who is now with Marathon Petroleum Company.
Marathon, of nearby Findlay, has been a recruiter of ONU graduates for many years as well as a provider of internships and co-ops. The company has been generous in its donations to ONU, as well.
Made-in-Ada Wilson Football Festival received some positive publicity when stories and photos were posted about noon on Thursday on Cleveland.com. Check it out.
Written by a Plain Dealer reporter, the article is titled "Ada, Ohio celebrates Super Bowl 51 with a pre-game festival, Wilson football drop."
ADA - Host Ada pulled away in the third quarter to defeat rival Allen East 59-44 in a Northwest Conference girls basketball contest Thursday night.
The Lady Bulldogs improved to 7-9 and 1-5 in the NWC with their initial conference win. Meanwhile, the youthful Lady Mustangs fell to 3-15 and 0-6 in the NWC with the defeat.
"We had four in double figures and all the girls gave us good minutes," said Ada head coach Bill Taflinger. "I am happy with their effort. It was nice for us to get that first league win."
Ada led 23-18 at halftime, but was never seriously threatened after ending the third period on a 10-2 run that led to a 13-point bulge.
The Ada Kiwanis Club will meet on Tuesday, January 31st at 12:00 noon at Viva Maria’s Restaurant in downtown Ada.
Annetta, Holmes, a representative of the Hardin County Dolly Parton Imagination Library, will be speaking about their efforts.
In 1995, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, to benefit the children of her home county in East Tennessee, USA.
Dolly's vision was to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families by providing them with the gift of a specially selected book each month.
ADA -- A ceremony to name a locker room in Ohio Northern University’s King Horn Sports Center in honor of Beverly “Bev” Daugherty will be held Feb. 4 at 10:45 a.m. She is the late wife of longtime ONU men’s basketball coach Gale Daugherty.
The “Beverly ‘Bev’ Daugherty Memorial Locker Room” is a fitting tribute to an individual who personified devotion and teamwork.
Ohio Northern University hosts a Pack Away Hunger event on Saturday with students, faculty and friends planning to pack 20,000 meals during a two-hour period.
The meals will go to alleviate hunger with 75 percent going to Haiti and the remainder remaining close to home at the West Ohio Food Bank in Lima and ReStore Community Center, Ada.
Pack Away Hunger event takes place in the Bear Cave in McIntosh Center.
Pack Away Hunger is a non-profit organization dedicated to greatly improving the lives of children and others who suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
