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Ada's flowers brought on by April showers

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, May 8, 2016

If April showers bring May flowers, this year's shower produced some of the most memorable flowers ever.

Ken Collins took a May walk around Ada and it wasn't difficult to find the results of April rains.

Here is a collection of flowers he photographers.

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Engineering competition teams earn strong finishes at IEEE conference

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, May 8, 2016

Competition teams from the Ohio Northern University College of Engineering earned strong finishes at the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)s Region 2 Student Activities Conference hosted by Cleveland State University from April 8-10.

ONU’s Sumo Robot team, made up of Tyler Germann, a senior electrical engineering major from New Haven, Ind., and Bryan Wilson, a senior electrical engineering major from Jeannette, Pa., placed third. In a sumo robot competition, teams construct an autonomous robot that fights to push an opponent out of a ring.

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Ada resident wins Bluffton Lions Club shopping spree

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, May 7, 2016

Deborah Bish from Ada, shown with the Bluffton Community Market manager, Mike Love, was the Shopping Spree winner at the Market on May 7. 

The Bluffton Lions Club sponsored the shopping spree as a way to gain proceeds for their scholarship program.  Winnings from this spree and other projects conducted by the Lions Club make it able to again give six scholarships for seniors in the area schools of Bluffton, Pandora-Gilboa and Cory-Rawson. 

These scholarship winners will be announced at the school’s annual awards session this week.

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Calling all green thumbs (and everyone else)

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, May 7, 2016

If you have a green thumb (even if you don't) here's a neat volunteer opportunity for you from the ReStore Facebook page:

"If anyone is interested in helping with the Community Garden, located on the ONU. campus, contact Chris DiBuasio at 419-230-4417 or 419-772-2780.

You will be volunteering for planting, weeding, watering and harvesting."

What are waiting for?

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Stop and smell the blooms

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, May 7, 2016

Ken Collins stopped and smelled the flowering trees blooming in Ada. He shoots digital and film and as he puts it: "I keep flirting with shooting black-and-white film occasionally and developing it myself, like the good old days." This photo was taken with 35-mm Fuji film in an old, but good, Pentax Spotmatic F camera. (Ken Collins photo)

 

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Asmus named OAC Softball Rookie of the Year; four land All-Conference honors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, May 7, 2016

By Ashley Birchmeier

Freshman Kylie Asmus was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Softball Rookie of the Year announced Friday afternoon.

The Polar Bears saw four members garner All-Conference honors.

Asmus and sophomore Kirsten Lightel earned Second Team All-OAC honors, while senior Amanda Lahti and sophomore Jenna Hollar were named Honorable Mention.

Asmus led ONU this season in hits (59) and doubles (13). The freshman recorded a career-high four hits in an 8-3 victory over Heidelberg.

She has recorded three or more hits in six games this season, three of which were during conference play.

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