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About that tree at the corner of SR 235 and CR 10 - did you know it's an Osage orange?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 24, 2015

By Monty Siekerman

Thanks to Lelia Dyer we now know that that the story we posted about a paw paw tree is actually an Osage orange, also known hedge apple, horse apple, monkey ball, or, if you know your French, bois d'arc.

Our story listed many edible uses for paw paw. But Osage orange is seldom eaten due to extremely hard texture and taste. The fruit is not poisonous to humans or livestock, as shown by several studies. The seeds of the fruit are edible and it is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other animals use of it as food source.

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Serve for a Cure generates $1,000

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 24, 2015

Ada and LCC tennis squads combined for a benefit for Amelia Griffin on Wednesday at the tennis courts in the park. Pictured are seniors (from left) Mackenzie Wills, Casey Swick, Cheyenne Wells and Olivia Gonder. "Serve for a Cure" profits went entirely for the little girl's medical expenses. Ada raised $600 and LCC $400 for the special benefit. There was a t-shirt sale, bake sale, raffle, and just plain 'ole cash donations. Two other Team Amelia events are planned for Tuesday, Sept.

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This is Bluffton's weekend for a fall festival

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 24, 2015

Last Saturday was Ada's fall event. This weekend it's Bluffton's turn.

FROM THE BLUFFTON ICON - The Bluffton community’s 12th annual Fall Festival, with many family-oriented activities, takes place throughout the community on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.

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Girls' tennis: It's Ada 5 - LCC 0

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 24, 2015

Ada High School's girls' tennis team moved to 14-5 overall blanking Lima Central Catholic 5-0 on Sept. 23.

Singles
Mackenzie Wills (A) def Emily Scheiwiller (LCC) 6-0,6-0
Casey Swick (A) def Kim Gonzalez (LCC) 6-2,6-0
Olivia Gonder (A) def Olivia Jeffers (LCC) 6-0,6-0

Doubles
Libbie Milks / Meredith Morgan (A) def Shelby Young / Morgan Schroeder (LCC) 6-1, 6-4
Meredith Marshall / Hailey Maier (A) def Cassandra Stuber / Kenya Manley-Banks (LCC) 6-1,6-0

 

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Liberty Township has only 1.56 inches of rain in August

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 24, 2015

By Mark Badertscher, OSU Extension Educator

During the month of August, Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 2.50 inches of rain. 

The most rain for this month, 3.90 inches, fell in Hale Township as measured by Tim Ramsey.  The least rain reported during the month, 1.56 inches was reported in Liberty Township by Phil Epley. 

During the same month last year, an average of 3.73 inches of rain fell. The rainfall recorded in August over the past ten years averaged 4.14 inches. 

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Law Dean’s Lecture Series to focus on ‘Originalism: A Thing Worth Doing…’

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 24, 2015

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law presents Jeremy Telman, professor of law at Valparaiso University Law School, as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series in the Celebrezze Moot Court Room on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 11 a.m.

The title of Telman’s presentation is “Originalism: A Thing Worth Doing…” The event is free and open to the public.

According to Telman, “Justice Antonin Scalia’s defense of originalism relies crucially on his argument that ‘a thing worth doing is worth doing badly,’ a motto that captures early originalism’s self-consciousness of its own limitations as a methodology of constitutional interpretation.

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