November 2019

 A school record 68 Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in the six fall sports for 2019.

The ONU football, men's soccer, women's soccer and women's cross country teams had record-high totals and the men's cross country team tied its record number of Academic All-OAC honorees.

Football had 16 named Academic All-OAC, men's soccer 15, women's soccer 13, women's cross country nine, men's cross country eight and volleyball seven.

The award winners must be a sophomore or higher in class standing, maintain varsity status and have a cumulative grade-point-average of at least 3.50.

Four Ada High School students and two Upper Scioto Valley students received recognition from the Kenton Elks Lodge 157 as their school's students of the month for October and November.

Students from each school in Hardin County are recognized each month. This was the first group of students recognized for 2019-2020 school year by the Elks.

A partial listing of individual student activities is included here:

Ada students

October
Nora Dellifield – school activities include Varsity Singers, track and field, Academic All-Ohio Award winner and basketball cheerleader. Daughter of David and Jami Dellifield.

MANY PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF STORY -
Don't wait! Closing bids are a 6 p.m. on Friday.

This year's Festival of Trees at Community Health Professionals,1200 S. Main St., comes to a close soon and bidders will find many decorated trees, wreaths and holiday decor items on the bid rack.

Proceeds benefit CHP hospice program.

Among items to bid on include a live tree for planting, donated by Guyton Builders. You can't miss this tree, as it is in the entrance to the entire display.

Several festival events continue for the rest of the week:

My kids bring a lot of papers home from school.

Amongst these papers was a sheet of practical activities to do at home to encourage literacy, logic, character-building and math skills. Under the language section, it suggested counting how many idioms my first grader could think of, as a sort of game.

You're pulling my leg, right?

First off, I think today's first graders are learning far more than I was taught at that grade level. For example, my first grader was learning to spell advanced words such as special, barbecue, and rhythm. She just turned seven. So - today's first graders have the potential to know far more than I did at that age.