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New Ada schools student drop off instructions

On December 3, Ada schools superintendent Robin VanBuskirk issued the following update to student drop off procedures:

In an effort to make our student drop off process more efficient and keep students safe, we will be implementing the following procedures beginning Monday, December 6, 2021. 

Students may now be dropped off at the south entrance beginning at 7:35. At 7:35 a.m. the doors will open and students will be able to wait in the cafeteria and to eat breakfast.  This should help alleviate congestion in the drop off line in the morning as well as give students more time to eat breakfast. 

Book Review: Bone Deep

By Robert McCool

In Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz's  brand new true crime book, Bone Deep, Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case (Kensington Publishing, ISBN 978-0-8065-4197-6), the characters and story are real. The circumstances happened as portrayed.

The writing is crisp and compelling, driving the reader to keep reading without stopping, in this true tale about Russ Faria supposedly killing his wife Betsy two days after Christmas in 2011. This book is all about the truth being stranger than fiction, and as it unfolds the truth gets abused by law enforcers and the prosecuting attorney in order to rush a guilty conviction.

All aboard for Merry on Main

Ada enjoyed a beautiful day for Merry on Main, December 4. Santa and Romick Railway brought famlies to Depot park, while a scavenger hunt, Princesses Ana and Elsa, and holiday shopping kept Main Street bustling. The Icon overhead the comment, "It's like old home week!"

Weekend Doctor: Chronic Wasting Disease in deer

By Christian Steiner, MD, Psychiatric Center of Northwest Ohio

There’s a pandemic. This one is specific to deer and, subsequently, should be of interest to deer hunters. It is called chronic wasting disease. Chronic wasting disease is similar to Mad Cow disease, as it is caused by a prion. What is a prion, you ask? While a little hard to describe, prions are essentially a misfolded protein that can cause other proteins (predominantly in the brain and nervous system) to also misfold and then create microscopic holes in the brain tissue.

World-famous Getty was son of ONU's Gettys

Portrait of a Namesake, onu.edu/news

The Getty name is notorious worldwide for prodigious wealth and tragedy. But few know that the Getty family dynasty can trace its beginning to Ohio Northern University. In fact, ONU’s Getty College of Arts & Sciences is named after George Franklin Getty, BS 1879, LLD 1926 and Sarah Catherine (Risher) Getty who were both students at ONU, made a fortune in oil, and became the parents of the eccentric J. Paul Getty, who was destined to become–in his day and age— the wealthiest person in the world.

The Getty family may be fodder for tabloids and Hollywood movies, yet the family has connected with ONU in enriching ways over the course of three generations.

Chamber winds Dec. 6 concert

Music education major Austin Friess rocking it as a trombone soloist with the Wind Ensemble in rehearsal for their 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6 concert at Presser Hall on the ONU campus (Livestream link). PHOTO https://www.facebook.com/ohionorthernmusic/

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