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Ada HS College Prep English students respond in essays
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, May 19, 2017

First of a two-part series.

Ada High School College Preparatory English students, in a class taught by Melody Veltri, were challenged with the question "What do you believe?" This story focuses on that project.

Question: What do you believe?

Mrs. Veltri posed this to her students. 

“I asked students to write a statement of personal beliefs,” she said. “This is challenging. It requires such intimacy that no one else can do it for you.”

Offering several suggestions for the assignment, these included telling a story, being brief, naming your belief, being positive and being personal.

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Ada Kiwanis Club Meeting Notice

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, May 19, 2017

The Ada Kiwanis Club will meet Tuesday May 23rd at 12:00 noon in the Dean’s Heritage Room, McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University.

Bruce Neely will have the club program.

Former Kiwanian Mark Light and Hardin County 4-H director will be presenting a program on the Hardin County Spark Lab.

The goal of the Hardin County Ohio Spark Lab is to instill that inspiration or “spark” that youth and adults need to discover, learn, and grow in a creative environment.

This setting is more than just a futuristic classroom or makerspace. It is center of innovation in a rural county framed through the education lens of a land grant university system.

 

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Men's Outdoor Track & Field concludes regular season at Gregory Invitational

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, May 19, 2017

By Caleb Scott

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — The Ohio Northern men's outdoor track and field team concluded its regular season this week as it competed at the Gregory Invitational hosted by North Central (Ill.) College in Naperville, Ill.

No team scores were kept in the meet.

Senior Lucas Shumate (Wapakoneta/Spencerville) led the Polar Bears on day one of the meet as he claimed first place in the hammer throw with a toss of 179' 4". 

Junior Alexander Sibila (Zionsville, Ind.) competed in the high jump for the Polar Bears, where he finished 13th overall, clearing 6' 1.5".

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Reed and Richards lead Women's Outdoor Track & Field at Gregory Invitational

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, May 19, 2017

By Caleb Scott

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Sophomore Maddy Reed (Lucasville/Piketon) and junior Emily Richards (Delaware/Hayes) led the Ohio Northern women's outdoor track and field team as it wrapped its regular season up at the Gregory Invitational hosted by North Central (Ill.) College.

No team scores were kept in the meet.

Reed led the way on day one for the Polar Bears as she claimed the pole vault title and broke her own school record with a leap of 13' 0.75".

The sophomore improved her national mark and solidified her spot with the second highest vault nationally.

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Here’s Hancock Park District’s summer calendar

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, May 19, 2017

The Hancock Park District provided the Icon with its June through August calendar of events. The calendar is in the attachment provided.

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Extension Rainfall Report for April 15-30

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, May 18, 2017

Hardin County – For the time period of April 15-30, Extension rainfall reporters recorded an average of 3.16 inches of rain in Hardin County.  Last year, the average rainfall for the same time period was 1.46 inches.  Rainfall for the April 15-30 time period is 1.12 inches more than the ten year average rainfall during the same dates.

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