Resources and events from Ohio Northern University
The statistics are too stark to be ignored: suicide is the third leading cause of death for college-age students in the United States. In 2021, 43.4% of 18 to 29-year-olds experienced symptoms of depression compared to 21% in 2017. That same year, a total of 48.5 percent screened for anxiety compared to 11% in 2019.
With these sobering numbers in mind, and with National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week to be recognized from Sept. 6-9, Ohio Northern University has planned campus activities and is emphasizing its year-round Northern-centric resources to help mitigate this epidemic.
Hardin County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a Mount Victory man. At 12:37 a.m. Saturday September 3, Hardin County Central Dispatch received a report of a vehicle setting in the roadway with its headlights off, on County Rd. 135 at Township Road 110, Kenton. Upon investigation the car's driver, 44-year-old Richard Eugene Whitaker, Jr. was found inside the car and critically injured, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.
The Ada High School football team scored 22 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to rally past county rival Hardin Northern in a wild 57-40 shootout at War Memorial Park Stadium Friday night, September 2.
The Bulldogs tallied 29 points in the final stanza after entering the decisive quarter behind 32-28.
With the home win and final non-league football game of the regular season, Ada improved to 1-2 this season. Hardin Northern fell to 1-2 with the loss.
By Paula Scott
Video link and additional photos below
A large decorative black bench now sits in front of the Beatitudes Community Center at 210 N. Main St., as an invitation to sit and watch the world go by, to stop and chat with someone you meet or to simply pause and take a moment of needed rest.
The bench is the gift of Penny Keller-Clark, known in the community as Officer Penney of the Ada Police Department. Keller-Clark made the gift as a memorial to her husband Patrick, who passed away in 2020 at age 92. A plaque is inscribed with his name, Patrick Joseph Clark, and The Irish Blessing (May the road rise up to meet you…).
HARDIN COUNTY–The 2022 Hardin County Fair Carcass Show of Champions will be held in-person at Jenkins Meats, 670 E. Marion Street, Mt. Victory on Monday, September 19 starting at 6:00 p.m.
Viewers will be able to watch the OSU Meat Judge give oral reasons and results at both the Hardin County OSU Extension and Ohio State-Hardin County 4-H Facebook pages in addition to the hardin.osu.edu website after the event.
The carcass show will evaluate the meat value of the grand champion and reserve champion steers, barrows, gilts, and lambs from this year’s Hardin County Fair.
Elzay Gallery, S. Gilbert St in the Wilson Art Building
Open most Mondays-Saturdays 12:00-4:00 p.m.
Emily Jay is an artist, scholar, and educator from Columbus, Ohio, and currently teaches at Ohio Northern University. She has exhibited internationally, and has been co-director at The Neon Heater Art Gallery in Findlay, Ohio since October 2016.
Utilizing both analogue and digital photographic techniques, paintings, installation, poetry, performance, and book making, her work repurposes the iconography and geometry of Italian Renaissance devotional imagery in order to root the female perspective into historical contexts.
MARION⎯The white-hot Ada High School girls soccer team won 4-2 at Marion Harding Thursday evening, September 2, to stay unbeaten and set a program record.
The Lady Bulldog kickers improved to 4-0 this season to fashion the best start in program annals. "These girls wanted to do something this program hasn't seen before with the 4-0 start to the season, and were determined to get the win," said first-year Ada head coach Doug Dewese.
Junior Ella Marshall netted three goals and assisted on the other score to pace the Bulldog attack. Sophomore Lexi Poling tallied the other Ada goal. Junior Olivia Burkhart dished out a pair of assists.
In its third and last non-league game before Northwest Conference play begins, The Ada High School football team hosts county rival Hardin Northern Friday night, September 2.
The game also caps a rare three-game homestand to open the 2022 season for the Bulldogs. Ada has six home games this season after hosting only four contests last year.
Ada enters the fray 0-2, while HN is 1-1 with a 44-19 win at Arcadia in their opener. The Polar Bears lost a 35-34 home shootout to Riverdale last Friday.
PANDORA—Music of all kinds will fill the air on Saturday, September 10 when The Quarry Farm Nature Preserve & Conservation Farm, Pandora, hosts the organization's annual Jam from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
The invitation: "Whether you play an instrument like a virtuoso or just like to pretend, sing along or listen, people of all ages are invited to this family-friendly event. Bring a lawn chair and spend a sweet late summer evening with music under the outdoor pavilion's big red roof, alongside the calls from the nature preserve."
