Monday, Sept. 21. Ada Boy Scout Troop 124 will have a ceremony to retire old flags at 6:30 pm at the Scout Cabin in War Memorial Park. The event, which is open to the public, is cosponsored by American Legion Post 185. Call Tom Lehman at 419-634-1466 for flag pickup.
Saturday, Sept. 19. The Ada First Presbyterian Church, South Main and Lincoln Ave., will have an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free hotdogs and drinks will be available.
There will be a benefit dinner for Amelia during the Crock Pot Tuesday meal at ReStore Community Center, 210 N Main, from 4 to 6 pm on Sept. 29. The spaghetti dinner is free but donations will be accepted.
Partners for the benefit are Padrone's Pizza, Zeta Tau Alpha and Delta Zeta sororities and ReStore.
By Monty Siekerman
This is a story about a poet and an artist with a little bit of music thrown in...the fine arts.
The ONU art and English departments hosted two men on Wednesday evening at the Wilson Art Center to discuss a book they collabrated on with the long title "Like a Bird Entering a Window and Leaving through Another Window."
So, how do two people successfully work together in publishing a book of writings and illustration?
Philip Terman, the poet, and James Stewart, the artist, explained that they have similar sensibilities.
Jennifer Moore, Ohio Northern University assistant professor of English, has had her collection of poems, “Veronica Maneuvers,” published by the University of Akron Press.
One critic of Moore’s new release said, “Each poem is a flammable mouth that refuses to be muzzled. Dazzling and dislocating the reader with ventriloquism, vaudevillian gowns, and sword swallowing, the book’s arresting tone is established by its torero title and first line – ‘In the Year of Our Lord the Electric Chair.’”
Another critic said, “This poet incises language with passion, not dispassion, until breath and pulse coalesce.”
Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Edges” from Sept. 24-27 at 7:30 p.m. A second show will be held on Friday, Sept. 25, at 10:30 p.m. There also will be a matinee performances on Sept. 27 at 2 p.m.
“Edges” is a song cycle about four burgeoning adults asking classic coming-of-age questions. Written by Tony-nominated Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (“Dogfight,” “James and the Giant Peach”) in their sophomore year at the University of Michigan, this charming, witty and honest examination of adulthood explores what happens when individuals are teetering on the edges of their lives.
