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Soccer season!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Ada HS soccer player Devin Waugh takes the ball through a host of Upper Sandusky soccer players in a varsity game on Tuesday. Upper won 3-1. (Photo by Vicki Garmon)

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ONU opens 2013-14 gallery program with ‘Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books Project II’

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Ohio Northern University gallery program opens its 2013-14 art exhibition and gallery season at the Elzay Gallery of Art with an international traveling show titled “Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books Project (MIMB) II.” More than 100 unique and subtly created object books are featured in the second version of MIMB. The exhibit runs Sept. 3 through Oct. 25.

Hui-Chu Ying, professor of art at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, and its main exhibition space, the Emily Davis Gallery, coordinated this exhibition.

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ONU's athletic training program re-accredited by CAATE

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, August 28, 2013

 

The Ohio Northern University athletic training program has received the maximum continuing accreditation award of 10 years from the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE).

The ONU program has met all of the nationally recognized Standards for Accreditation of Professional Athletic Training Programs as set by the CAATE. The award resulted from a comprehensive evaluation of the ONU athletic training program, including a self-study and on-site visit in February 2013. ONU’s program was initially accredited in 1998.

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September-October Ada Highlights calendar seeks events

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Ada Icon is currently working on the September-October Ada Highlights calendar of events, distributed by the Ada Community Improvement Corp. (CIC).

Persons who have events that are open to the public and take place within the Ada school district should send the information to:

[email protected]

Please send, name of event, date, time and location.

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Wild

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 27, 2013

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet would have loved this scene of wild flowers. You can see it, too. It's in the front lawn at 7333 County Line Road, just north the Lincoln Highway.

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Ada Friends - mentoring program between Ada school youth and ONU students - organizing for 2013-14

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Imagine a program that matches Ada kindergarteners through eighth graders with a college student mentor.

Such a program exists.

Ada Friends, organized in 1991 through the Ohio Northern University Religious Life staff, last school year matched 74 Ada students with college mentors. Applications for this school year’s program are now being accepted, according to Jerrod Amstutz, an ONU senior, student coordinator. 

The ONU Religious Life Staff is under the dirction of David MacDonald, ONU chaplain.

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