Between the temperatures and the autumnal light, October is turning out lovely. According to statistics collected by local weather observer Guy Verhoff, for the first 18 days of October high temperatures were 65 degrees (F) or warmer. Twice during that time the high temp was 79 degrees. It's only been in the last few days that we are shifting away from that.
Fall days have fall nights and those temperature are staying lower. In fact, October night time lows have been in the 40's for 14 of 21 days.
Never mind the H20 - Ohio Northern University celebrated its 2013 homecoming wet and dry.
Everything went off without that wet hitch. There was a homecoming queen crowning, football game, health fair, Spielman walk/run, lots of food and music.
Donald Traxler captured some of the homecoming parade floats and bands. His photos are available in the photo scrapbook attachment at the bottom of this story.
Can’t you tell Halloween is on the way? There’s lots of fall events planned near the end of the month and all you need to do is show up wearing a mask.
Here’s a list of events planned in Ada on Monday, Oct. 28:
• Buy Ada First cauldron cook-off
Ada depot – 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Stop by and sample a variety of soups from local restaurants and vote for your favorite soup. Participants are:
• Jalapenos Mexican Grill, 109 S. Main St.
• Ada Express Mart, 602 N. Main St.
• ONU Sodexo dining services
The Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University continues its entrepreneurship workshop series in the Dicke Forum on Thursday, Oct. 24. The workshop will be preceded by a networking event at 5:30 p.m. The workshop will follow the networking event and conclude at 7 p.m.
The topic of the workshop will be “‘Always Be Closing!’ Entrepreneurial Insight on the Value of Good Sales Skills, and Why They are Needed More Than Ever Today” with Rob Lydic. This event is free and open to the public.
Giant Ragweed and Marestail (horseweed) are problem weeds in some Hardin County soybean fields this fall. A survey of 105 Hardin County soybean fields was conducted in September to determine which weeds are considered problem weeds in the county.
There were also some fields with some volunteer corn, which had grown from the previous year’s crop. This on-going research is conducted annually by OSU Extension to find out which weeds are competing with crops for nutrients and moisture, which decreases yields while increasing herbicide and other input costs.
