Thirty-seven Ada fourth graders were recognized for their read skills during last week's ONU men's basektball game.
It was the culmination of a program called Celebrating Reading with Coach Byrne. The 37 students recognized had qualified qualified and participated in the program.
During the second nine weeks of school ONU basketball players teamed up with Ada fourth graders up to improve fourth grader reading skills.
Each student who achieved these goals attended an ONU home men’s basketball game. Each student was recognized during halftime.
Professor Melissa Eddings instructs ONU student Paige Ordean on couching during a paper-making class. Couching is transferring a sheet of paper from the mold to the felt. Professor Eddings has taught at ONU since 1997.
Melanie Butterfield, a member of the Upper Scioto Valley Girl Scout Troop 20301 recently receive the scout Silver Award.
The Silver Award is the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can earn. It gives the girl an opportunity to demonstrate her leadership skills by organize a service project to improve her community.
Here is a description of the award and Melanie's specific projects:
Concrete canoe advisor, sports timekeeper, educator, and more....that's Bob Ward.
How did you get involved with concrete canoe competition?
An engineering society holds a competition each year. I have supported the concrete canoe team and have gone to most of our competitions since I came here. It has been wonderful seeing the team improve each year and has made it to the nationals several times in the past few years.
Ohio Northern University's Delta Sigma Phi fraternity sponsored the 4th annual Polar Plunge at the Fraternity Circle pond on Saturday with the goal of raising $3,000 to benefit the American Red Cross.
