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Ohio Northern University to present ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Romeo and Juliet” by National Players in the Stambaugh Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m.

This production of “Romeo and Juliet” is National Players at its best: fresh, contemporary and visceral. This rendering of star-crossed lovers is set to the pulsing rhythms of contemporary digital society, where everything is shared and nothing connects, and takes the play back to its source while bringing it viciously into the here and now.

CEDC at ONU to present free entrepreneur workshop on small business taxes

The Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University continues its entrepreneurship workshop series in the Dicke Forum on Tuesday, Jan. 29. 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 “Taxes and Your Business” with Mary E. Fox, an attorney with Fox Ruhlen Co. LPA in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. This event is free and open to the public.

It's January - but time to sign up for spring soccer in Ada

Although the calendar says it's still winter, interested boys and girls need to starting thinking of spring and signing up for soccer.

Spring soccer sign-ups will take place on the following dates and times:

  • Wednesday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Saturday, Jan. 19, 10 a.m. - noon
  • Thursday, Jan. 24,  6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Saturday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m. - noon.

All sign-ups take place at Restore Community Center, 210 North Main Street.

Parents are reminded that if your child has not previously  played with the Ada Soccer organization, please bring a birth certificate.

Peter Previte of ONU to speak at Bluffton Lions on Jan. 22

Peter Previte, Professor at the School of Pharmacy will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club. He will be speaking on the topic of a “Brief History of the Federal Food/Drug/Cosmetic Act”.

The  lunchtime meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Maple Crest Senior Living Center, Bluffton, at noon.

Members and anyone interested in signing up for the meal may do so by emailing [email protected]

OHSAA moving to seven-division football playoffs

The Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors met Thursday in Columbus for its regularly scheduled January meeting. The following are highlights from the meeting. The complete set of meeting minutes will be posted at www.OHSAA.org.

Ada...home of the bulldogs, polar bears and Garfield

Ada's best known for its bulldogs and polar bears, but there's one giant cat in town. It's Garfield, housed in the Ada Public Library.

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