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Liberty Township experienced 24 inches of rain during 2014 growing season

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, October 17, 2014

By Mark Badertscher, OSU Extension Educator

During the month of September, Hardin County Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 2.08 inches of rain.The most rain for this month, 3.58 inches, fell in Liberty Township, as measured by Phil Epley. 

The least rain reported during the month, 1.05 inches, was reported in Taylor Creek Township by Silver Creek Supply.  During the same month last year, an average of 3.23 inches of rain fell.  The rainfall recorded in September over the past 10 years averaged 3.70 inches. 

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Ada Whiz Quiz team will be on Channel 44

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, October 17, 2014

Champions have been crowned in the TV-44 Whiz Quiz Tournament with Van Wert and St. Marys claiming top title in each respective tournament bracket. The annual televised event included 30 high school quiz teams, divided evenly  into two different brackets, each bracket with three days of competition until crowning a champion.

Bracket one, aka, the Fall Whiz Quiz Tournament, included the following teams: Coldwater, Patrick Henry, Riverdale, Delphos St. Johns, Elida, Paulding, Versailles, Van Wert, Findlay, New Bremen, Shawnee, Bellefontaine, Continental, Arcadia and Allen East.

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ONU prof has book signing on Saturday AM

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, October 17, 2014

Darrin Snyder Belousek will sign his recently released book “The Road That I Must Walk: A Disciple’s Journey,” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to Saturday, Oct. 18, at Book Reviews, 123 S. Main St., Bluffton, according to Christina Walton, store manager.

The book is published by Cascade Books.

The author is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Ohio Northern University. He is also an adjunct instructor in the Department of Religion at Bluffton University.

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Guadete Brass Quintet to perform at ONU Oct. 24

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Friday, October 17, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the Gaudete Brass Quintet in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24. 
           
The Chicago-based Gaudete Brass Quintet performs works by contemporary composers Eric Ewazen, Joan Tower, John David Sampson and John Cheetham as well as works from the Renaissance by De Wert and Praetorius.

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ONU to present discussion on "Living both faith and science"

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Thursday, October 16, 2014

Ohio Northern University Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Office of the Chaplain will present a discussion on “Living Both Faith and Science” in the English Chapel at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. The event is free and open to the public.

This event will be a conversation about the relationship between science and religion. In contemporary society, many think that science and religion are “at war” with each other. However, scholars have challenged this view as overly simplistic. This “conflict view” neglects the ways that religion and science historically have been sometimes complementary and, at other times, in competition.

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Ohio Northern University pharmacy professor, students attend Ohio Pharmacists Association conference

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Thursday, October 16, 2014

Lindsey Peters, Ohio Northern University visiting professor of pharmacy practice, was selected as one of 14 pharmacists to attend the Ohio Pharmacists Association’s 2014 Young Pharmacist Leadership Conference in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 11.

Adam Smith, a fifth-year pharmacy major from Dublin, Ohio, and Taylor Reed, a fifth-year pharmacy major from Springdale, Ark., were the student representatives for Ohio Northern University.

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