Ohio Northern University College of Law has established a scholarship and dedicated a suite of rooms to honor Nancy Sabol.
She served as the Director of Academic Support, Associate Professor of Law and Title IX Coordinator at Ohio Northern University until her death on April 25, 2020, after a brief battle with cancer.
Her family launched a scholarship at ONU Law in her memory. Starting in Summer 2021, the scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student in the Summer Starter Program, a program designed for students who excelled in their undergraduate education but received a lower LSAT score.
The Ohio Northern women's lacrosse team jumped to a big early lead and held off a furious late rally to win 17-15 at Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday night at Finnie Stadium.
The Polar Bears improve to 3-3 overall and are 3-3 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, while the Yellow Jackets fall to 0-5, 0-5.
Freshman Sydney Kilgore (Pleasant Plain/Little Miami) tied a school record with 10 points, scoring seven goals and adding three assists, to lead Ohio Northern.
She tied the single-game mark held by Maddie Storr in 2019 and Rachel Shipman in 2017.
Ohio Northern senior Sydney Ward (Columbus/Upper Arlington) and sophomore Brynn Serbin (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) were named All-Ohio Athletic Conference in women's basketball for 2020-21 in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Ward was named Second Team All-OAC and Serbin was an Honorable Mention All-Conference selection.
Ward led the Polar Bears in scoring (7.6 ppg) and rebounding (6.3 rpg) this season.
A four-year regular in toe rotation, Ward scored 393 points in 80 career games.
Serbin was second on the team in scoring this season at 7.4 ppg and led the team in assists with 31 and steals with 25.
Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS) will be hosting a Facebook Live entitled “BVHS COVID-19 Vaccine Update,” on Thursday, March 11 beginning at Noon.
BVHS President and CEO Myron Lewis and Dr. William Kose, vice president of special projects, will be joined by Findlay, Ohio Mayor, Christina Muryn for a discussion regarding the COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Additional topics will include future plans for vaccination efforts, the city’s response, the mobile health clinic, state directives and more.
The Ohio Rail Development Commission, meeting on March 10, will act on a $75,000 grant to Trucent Renewable Chemicals, a company planning a new investment in Van Wert.
The company is located on the Chicago, Ft. Wayne and Eastern Railroad, passing through Ada, which may eventually increase rail traffic here.
The approximately $10 million facility will result in 21 new jobs in Van Wert.
Headquartered in Dexter, Michigan, Trucent is a fluid separation technology company operating in several industries from automotive and heavy equipment manufacturing to solar glass fabrication and aerospace.
Ada High School will hold its 115th Interclass contest at 7 p.m., Friday, March 19.
Interclass has been an Ada tradition that is unique to the community. It started in 1907 when Superintendent C.H. Freedman proposed an academic competition between the 10th, 11th and 12th grades.
Interclass celebrates the written and spoken word. Students compete in the areas of essay writing, poetry, short story, and dramatic reading. In each category, one winner has been chosen from each grade after an internal competition within the classes.
So, you think you know Ada? IONA may be a college on New Rochelle, New York, but in this case, IONA is part of the Liberty NatIONAl Bank on Main Street, Ada.
Luke Sheets, associate professor in art and ceramics professor at Ohio Northern, has a piece accepted to the art exhibit “Playing with Fire: Altered Atmospheres.”
The show is organized by the Saratoga Clay Arts Center in New York and is a national juried exhibition of 68 functional and decorative works by 59 clay artists.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 13 and runs through April 24.
Sheets has working in clay for over 20 years. After completing his BFA in ceramics, he worked in his own studio creating and firing wood-fired pottery.
Kesewa Akyeampong and Ian Dellifield, both seniors, are the Kenton Elks February Ada High School teenagers of the month.
Among Kesewa’s school involvement includes participation in band, show choir, plus leadership in several organizations.
She is show choir president, senior class secretary, and has performed as soloist in spring fever follies where she received the best performer award, and was a participant in Interclass competition where she received a first place in dramatic reading and second place in poetry. She was the marching band drum major this school year.
The Ohio Northern University School of Visual and Performing Arts will present a dance for camera film titled “SHIFT” from Friday to Sunday, March 19 through March 21, via livestream on freedcenter.com.
The film will be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. on March 19 and March 20, with a 2 p.m. matinee broadcast on March 21.
Focusing on the shift of weight, time and space, faculty and student choreographers will present a dance concert based on personal narratives, experiences and emotions using the moving body through the lens of contemporary, pointe, modern, jazz and tap genres.
