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ONU presents an evening with a very unusual family - Jan. 21 in Freed Center

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 20, 2014

WATCH THE VIDEO AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY

Ohio Northern University presents “An Evening With the Lacks Family” in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public, this event is sponsored by ONU’s Committee on the Arts and Special Events, Freed Center for the Performing Arts, and Office of Multicultural Development.

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Last two weeks of January full of activities at Ada schools

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 20, 2014

Despite January's weather delays, lots of activities take place in Ada schools this month. Here's a list of current activities taken from the school website

DATES TO REMEMBER:
• Thursday, Jan. 23 -  8th Grade Science Fair in cafeteria 6:30 – 8 p.m.
   ***Snow Date- Jan 30th
• Tuesday, Jan. 28 - Two-hour early dismissal for teacher in-service meetings

SOPHOMORES: If you are interested in possibly attending Apollo next year and would like to visit two programs on Jan. 31,  turn in your 41 Blast form to the high school office

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The spell of winter

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 20, 2014

Winter's landscape provides interesting textures. Here's a zoom lens look at am area backyard flowering crabapple tree's fruits in January.

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Icon Coffee-dunking Oatmeal Cookies

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, January 18, 2014

Icon Coffee-dunking Oatmeal Cookies

These aren’t your grandmother’s oatmeal cookies.

When I bake cookies I usually try to use something that I’m just about out of, so I can get rid of the container. Tonight I noticed that I have what appears to be three cups of oatmeal left in the oatmeal cylinder, so, why not try some oatmeal cookies – I thought.

It’s 15 degrees out; I’m hungry and need something to dunk into milk or coffee. Not one to follow the recipe, I’ve used poetic license, thus inventing Icon Coffee-dunking Oatmeal Cookies.

Here goes.

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Ever been on Ada, Oklahoma? It has similarities to Ada, Ohio

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 17, 2014

By Caitlin Nearhood

Here’s another Ada you probably didn’t know about.

Ada, Oklahoma, is the county seat in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and is located in south central part of the state. It’s also 90 miles from Oklahoma City. The population was 16,810 at the 2010 census, larger than our Ada. In 1891, a post office was established and the city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of Jeff Reed, the first local mail carrier and a relative of the Daggs family that first settled there.

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Upside-down cake

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 17, 2014

A white-breasted nuthatch feasts on peanuts in its familiar upside-down eating stance in an Ada are bird feeder.

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