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No. 17 men's swimming & diving defeats Oberlin 160-81

By Tim Glon

The No. 17-ranked Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team remained undefeated on the season with a 160-81 victory over Oberlin Friday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center.

The Polar Bears improve to 7-0, while the Yeomen fall to 3-3.

Junior Chrstian Garlock won the 50 free in :22.70 and won the 200 breast in 2:18.75 to lead Ohio Northern.

ONU won nine of the 13 events in the victory.

Northern swept the freestyle events, led by Garlock's win in the 50 free.

Junior Jon Beaschler won the 100 free in :49.69, senior Chris Hoffman won the 200 free in 1:51.33 and freshman Jacob Croasdell won the 500 free in 2:18.75.

The final lap

Senior Amy Elwer and junior Lindsay Rayhill each won two events to lead the Ohio Northern women's swimming & diving team to a 126-111 victory over Oberlin Friday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center. (ONU photo)

This map has one black dot for every person in Ada, and in the whole U.S. and Canada

The internet is ripe with many cool things. We at the Icon thought this was pretty neat.

Brandon Martin-Anderson created a map that contains a dot for every single person counted in the last U.S. and Canadian censuses.  That means 341,817,095 dots. 

According to the site, he wanted "an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc."  So he wrote a computer program and fed in the information from the census.

Click here for the census dotmap. 

Ohio Northern University to present ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Romeo and Juliet” by National Players in the Stambaugh Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m.

This production of “Romeo and Juliet” is National Players at its best: fresh, contemporary and visceral. This rendering of star-crossed lovers is set to the pulsing rhythms of contemporary digital society, where everything is shared and nothing connects, and takes the play back to its source while bringing it viciously into the here and now.

CEDC at ONU to present free entrepreneur workshop on small business taxes

The Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University continues its entrepreneurship workshop series in the Dicke Forum on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The workshop will be preceded by a networking event at 5:30 p.m. The workshop will follow the networking event and conclude at 7 p.m.

The topic of the workshop will be “Taxes and Your Business” with Mary E. Fox, an attorney with Fox Ruhlen Co. LPA in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. This event is free and open to the public.

It's January - but time to sign up for spring soccer in Ada

Although the calendar says it's still winter, interested boys and girls need to starting thinking of spring and signing up for soccer.

Spring soccer sign-ups will take place on the following dates and times:

  • Wednesday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Saturday, Jan. 19, 10 a.m. - noon
  • Thursday, Jan. 24,  6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Saturday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m. - noon.

All sign-ups take place at Restore Community Center, 210 North Main Street.

Parents are reminded that if your child has not previously  played with the Ada Soccer organization, please bring a birth certificate.

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