By Monty Siekerman
An entirely ONU student-run business has been successful, both financially and as a learning experience. Founded in 2010, Polar Merchandise has a team typically between 5-12 students. Their goal? To provide their customers with custom promotional products at low prices.
Company associates are looking to expand their sales territory beyond campus by encouraging local companies and service organizations to buy from them. Polar Merchandise, offers t-shirts, key chains, cups, frisbees, and more. In fact, they have access to over a million of promotional products and apparel items.
May 1923 the first advertisement for the Public Service Filling Station, located on East Buckeye Street, appeared in the newspaper. Earl S. Wolfrom was the local manager.
May 1923 the first sectional elimination track meet of northwestern Ohio high schools was held here. Twelve schools were represented.
Tom Ginsburg, professor of international law at the University of Chicago, will deliver the Kormendy Lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the law college. He will discuss “How to lose constitutional democracy – and how to save it.”
In his talk, Ginsburg will explore if the United States is at risk of democratic backsliding and if the Constitution can prevent it. As he notes, to some, the 2016 election campaign brought this question to the forefront, while to others, the election represented a populist accountability movement against an unresponsive elite.
By Monty Siekerman
This is the fourth and final installment of the adventures of Bi, the little polar bear from the Arctic who came to visit his friend Klondike during an especially cold winter in Ada.
Today, Bi finds King-Horn/Sports Center on campus and is amazed at all the polar bears he found there.
Yes, the athletic complex has roaring, mean-looking bears, then there are some not so scary. He cuddles up to a coed on the bleachers, even finds a polar bear face made of tile on one of the walls.
Ada school language arts teacher, Erica Shadley was recognized by State of Ohio Superintendent of Schools, Paolo DeMaria, for an instructional unit centered on the book, Wonder, by R.J. Palacio.
Recently made into a movie, Wonder tells the story of Augie Pullman, and centers on themes of kindness and acceptance.
State Superintendent DeMaria purchased a grade level set of the sequel, Auggie and Me, in recognition of Shadley’s unit, in which students focused on kindness. (See photo attached)
ONU senior Matt Molinaro (Sterling Heights, Mich./DeLaSalle) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Track Athlete of the Week for the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 5 for his efforts at the Camel City Elite Races in Winston-Salem, North Carolina during the weekend.
Molinaro earned the honor for the second consecutive week.
The senior had a strong showing at the JDL Fast Track as he finished third overall in the 800-meter run and was the first collegiate athlete to cross the finish line.
ONU senior Emily Richards (Delaware/Hayes) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week for the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 5 for her efforts at the Camel City Elite Races in Winston-Salem, North Carolina during the weekend.
Richards added another historic and record-breaking day to her resume.
The senior competed in the 800-meter run at the JDL Fast Track where she finished sixth overall, behind two Division I athletes and three professional runners.
For the third time this season, junior Ryan Bruns (Chickasaw/Marion Local) has been named the Ohio Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week.
The junior averaged 27.5 points per game in ONU's 2-0 week that featured victories over Baldwin Wallace and Muskingum.
Bruns posted 29 points and six rebounds in the overtime win over Baldwin Wallace and followed that performance up with a 28-point and 14-rebound effort in an 82-69 win at Muskingum.
