Mindi Wells, Esq., PHR, of Wells Law will give the send-off at the Hardin Leadership graduation on Thursday at the Elk's Lodge in Kenton.
The county leadership group will be celebrating its 25th year with a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. that evening.
Wells is an ONU law graduate and a 2002 Hardin Leadership graduate. Wells Law is an employment and education law firm in Columbus. Jesse Purcell of Kenton will give the class reflections.
The annual meeting will take place following the graduation.
By Monty Siekerman
The Ada High School scholastic quiz bowl team won the conference championship Saturday at an 8-school competition hosted by Bluffton High School on Saturday.
Ada won by good margins each time they competed. The conference consists of the same schools that are members of the Northwest Conference.
Ada finished 8-0 beating Lincolnview, 20-3; Crestview, 13-4; Spencerville, 11-7, Paulding, 12-7, Allen East, 17-7; Delphos Jefferson, 15-3, Ada 14, Bluffton 5 and Columbus Grove, 10-6. Ada qualifies for regional competition in April.
At a solemn occasion, 117 third-year pharmacy students took an oath of professionalism and received white coats during a ceremony on Saturday morning at the Sports Center. Many friends and family as well as mentors of the students were on hand for the occasion at which the white coats were presented, signifying their commitment to the profession and their future patients.
Ali Alhomoud (left) with his wife, Muntaha Alnujaid, following the white coat ceremony. He is a third-year pharmacy student while she is in her first year. Both are from Saudi Arabia.
How do you change a tire or jump start a car? There are problems you run into in life, so Assistant Principal Dan Lee demonstrated these life skills to seniors during a recent Monday advisory. (Monty Siekerman photo)
By Grant Pepper
The 14th-ranked ONU women’s soccer team will be competing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday morning, when they will host Penn St.-Behrend at 11:30 a.m.
It will mark the program’s first trip to the national tournament in five years and the first time that they have hosted the first two rounds of the tournament since 2011.
The Polar Bears are coming off of a 17-1-2 regular season, with their only loss coming in their first game, on Sept. 1. They were an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament after winning the OAC regular season and tournament titles for the first time in school history.
