May 2015

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Dandelions...
* Eat them. Certain varieties, usually the long-stemed ones, are used as salad greens, soups, wines, and teas. When cooking, blanch them or saute them to make them more tasty.

* The roasted root is used as a coffee substitute. It's caffeine-free.

* It's one of the ingredients of root beer.

* Provides nectar and pollen for bees and some butterflies.

* Adds nitrogen to the soil.

* Dandelion is an herb used for many conditions, such as loss of appetite, upset stomach, intestinal gas, gallstones, joint pain, muscle aches, eczema, and bruises, laxative, skintoner, blood tonic, and digestive tonic, virus, cancer.

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It's Free Shred Your Documents Week and that means Liberty National Bank is ready to assist you in safely discarding your documents.

Shredding is going on all week until Friday, May 8  at all Liberty Bank locations.

“We are proud to offer this service free of charge as a way to give back to our communities,” said Ronald Zimmerly, president and CEO.

Identity Theft and fraud are a rational fear for individuals and businesses. By simply shredding old tax records, insurance records, bank statements, cancelled checks, health records, financial documents, legal documents, and all other sensitive documents you can help stop identity thieves in their tracks.

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iPad Audiobooks and eBooks, Thursday, May 21st, 10a.m.-11a.m.
Sign-up required!

This course presents an overview of eBooks and audiobooks. Topics will include installing the OverDrive Media Console app, creating an OverDrive account, and authorizing your account for titles.

Troubleshooting Devices, Thursday, May 21st, 11a.m.-12p.m.
Sign-up required!

This course offers an in-depth approach to troubleshooting common user and device problems associated with your digital content. This could include downloading, installing, playng, transferring, and much more!

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Last Week at Ohio Northern:

   #20 Baseball - Won 3-1 H v #7 Wooster; Lost 1-8 / Won 5-4 at #6 Heidelberg
   Softball - Finished 2nd at OAC Tournament at Heidelberg; Lost 3-6 v Capital; Won 3-0 v John Carroll; Won 3-2 v Capital; Won 6-3 at Heidelberg; Lost 3-9 at Heidelberg
   Men's Tennis - OAC Tournament: Lost 0-5 at Capital
   Women's Tennis - OAC Tournament: Won 5-0 at Capital; Won 5-2 v Otterbeinl Won 5-2 v John Carroll
   Men's Outdoor Track & Field - Idle
   Women's Outdoor Track & Field - Idle
   Men's Golf - Season Complete
   Women's Golf - Season Complete

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Story and photos by Amy Eddings

Ten-year old Ella Bardertscher was the clear winner in the children's' fun run before the 7th annual Run For the Roses 5K race at Ohio Northern University's Kerscher Stadium on Sunday, May 3.

It was a fitting tribute to her cousin, Angela Bardertscher, in whose memory the race is held. Angie, a graduate of Ada High School and ONU, died of cystic fibrosis in 2008 at the age of 27. Her sister, Kim, has CF, too, and had a double lung transplant in 2011. The race is also in her honor.

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The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy has been awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration grant to establish a multidisciplinary rural mobile clinic to provide health care for residents of Hardin County, Ohio.

The grant, totaling, $572,973 over three years, will fund an innovative model that will employ a community mobile clinic using a multidisciplinary team of ONU faculty and students and interdisciplinary health care specialists under the supervision of licensed professionals to deliver educational outreach and health care services.

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Rev. Abe Rowe, 87, died Sunday, May 3, at 10:30 a.m.. The son of Noah Rowe and Martha Hollon Rowe, he was born on September 9, 1927 in Breathitt County, Kentucky.
He served at the end of World War II in Germany as a member of the U.S. Army, and received an honorable discharge upon return.

On November 9, 1950 he married Lucy Dyer. He is survived by his wife; four children: Rocky (Vickie) Rowe of Lima, Fred (Kathy) Rowe of Waynesfield, Sonja (Virgil) Dye of Alger, and Paul (Erin) Rowe of Dola; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two sisters: Stella (Frank) Dyer of Alger and Beatrice (Jerry) Kortokrax of Lima.

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Mark Bays cares for the Survivor Tree, an 80-year-old American elm that survived the Oklahoma City bombing which occurred 20 years ago in April.

Bays spoke at Tree City USA awards ceremony held at the Toledo Zoo on April 29. At the occasion, the Village of Ada and ONU were both honored for the planning, growth, and care of trees.

During lunch, Bays met with Monty Siekerman who is familiar with memorials built in memory of those lost in disasters. Siekerman's daughter, Amy, and her husband Kyle Miller perished aboard TWA Flight 800 the next year. The memorial for the plane crash is located on Long Island.

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In late April, five students represented Ada High School in the Area 1 Envirothon, according to Tony Dyer, Ada Agricultural Education Instructor. This year's theme was Urban and Rural Forestry.

The event was held at 4-H Camp Palmer near Fayette, Ohio. A total of 58 teams competed in the areas of aquatics, forestry, soils, wildlife, and current environmental issues. The Ada team placed 32nd in the annual competition.

Competing in the Envirothon were, from left, Quinn High, Alex James, Ashley Sumner, Jackson Secor and Blake Willeke.

 

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The Ada village council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, at 6:30 p.m. will be held in the Ada Depot located at 112 Central Ave., according to Angela Polacheck, village administrative assistant.

 

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