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One-of-a-kind academic amenity, Metzger Nature Center

Feature from www.ONU.edu/news/

A lesser-known fact: tucked away in the picturesque Eastern Ohio hills is an Ohio Northern University-owned locale that provides uncommon residential education opportunities. Totaling 78 acres with two facilities for extended living while learning, Metzger Nature Center is unlike any other college experience.

Music and movement Mondays for little ones

 Mondays just got more exciting with Music & Movement at the library!

Join Miss Kari for a fun-filled blend of songs, dances, and activities. It's the perfect way to keep your little ones engaged, learning, and having a blast! 

Weekend Doctor: What is a "swing bed"?

By Emily Koogler, LSW, CCM
Social Worker-Case Manager, Bluffton Hospital

What is a swing bed?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) grants approval to critical access hospitals to provide post-acute care in the hospital setting if the facility meets certain requirements. The swing bed concept allows a critical access facility to use its beds interchangeably for either acute care or post-acute care. The patient swings from receiving acute-care services and reimbursement to receiving skilled services and reimbursement while staying in the hospital setting.

Leadership class participants show businesses how to get Hardin County Connected

By Paula Scott

At the November meeting of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, two participants in the current Hardin County Leadership Project introduced members to an opportunity to put area businesses and organizations on a virtual map for the entire county.

PHOTO Are you ready for some basketball?

The Ada Bulldogs Sports Photos page on Facebook has a treasure trove of action shots, including this freeze frame of the Bulldog win vs. Hardin Northern on December 5. For more Mark Andreasen photos, click HERE.

ONU introduces "Lost Brothers" program

If you lose touch with your college fraternity brothers after graduation, do you: a) do nothing; b) try to reconnect with them via social media or a phone call after life slows down, or c) surprise them by showing up at their house unannounced 35 years later?

If “c” sounds like the craziest choice, meet three late ’80s Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers from Ohio Northern University.

By all accounts, Dan Meek, BSME ’88, Brian Newberg, BA ’89, and Brian Keckler, BSEE ’89, are decent individuals and reputable professionals—a venture capitalist, an attorney, and a quality manager, respectively.

When the three get together? Surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly), the ONU fraternity brothers transform into jokesters and co-conspirators, reminiscent of their college-aged selves.

During one such gathering of the minds, on a golf course during a global pandemic, the three concocted their most harebrained scheme to date: “The Lost Brothers Project.”

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