Healther Schalk
Volunteer Coordinator
Blanchard Valley Hospital Auxiliary
Many of us consider our pets as family members. They are usually loving creatures who are great at lending an ear and keeping us company. But pets offer more benefits to our health than simply being good companions. Pets that are trained to be therapy animals have been scientifically proven to provide physical and mental benefits to owners and patients.
FROM BLUFFTON ICON - Sunday, Nov. 4, is your final opportunity to visit the rural Bluffton Suter Produce corn maze and to pick up some of this season’s cider.
Saturday and Sunday hours are 1 to 8 p.m. The final maze admission time is 7 p.m. The cider press and corn maze is located at 8250 Road R, Pandora.
Troy Chiefari has been named the first head esports head coach at Ohio Northern University.
ONU plans to begin competition in League of Legends and Overwatch in the fall of 2019.
Chiefari comes to Ohio Northern with a tremendous amount of esports success as both a player and a coach.
He is a former professional player and has coached at both the professional and collegiate levels.
Chiefari played professionally Halo: CE from 2005-07.
He also served as the head coach of Tabula Rasa, which was a League of Legends semi-pro team from 2015-17 and was the competitive manager for the Esports Club at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
Three local issues - school renewal levy, fire additional levy and county 4-H renewal levy - are on the Ada and Liberty Township Tuesday, Nov. 6. ballot.
The 2018 mid-term election - actually, its outcome – will probably be the story of the year in the United States.
The Ohio Northern women's soccer team posted a 2-0 victory over Mount Union in the semifinals of the 2018 OAC Tournament on a rainy, windy night at Kerscher Stadium.
The second-seeded Polar Bears (14-3-1 overall) advance to the finals on Saturday night at 7 pm at top-seeded Otterbein, who topped fourth-seeded Capital 1-0 in the other semifinal match.
Ohio Northern will be making its fourth consecutive trip to the tournament finals.
The third-seeded Purple Raiders end their season with an 11-7 record.
The time changes this weekend. Fall back one hour. In other words, if you go to bed at 11 p.m. on Saturday, change your clocks to 10 p.m. You gain an hour of sleep. There will be more daylight in the mornings, which is a safety factor for children going to school; but, you’ll loose an hour of daylight in the evenings.
The No. 20-ranked Ohio Northern women's volleyball program defeated fourth-seeded Baldwin Wallace 3-1 inside the ONU Sports Center Thursday evening, securing their league-leading 27th all-time berth in the OAC tournament finals .
With the victory, ONU improves to 21-7 overall on the season. The Yellow Jackets conclude their postseason OAC tournament run with a 27-5 overall record.
Crimson Lane wedding and event venue, rural Bluffton, is holding a Saturday open house.
The event is from 4 to 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, at Crimson Lane, located at 4600 County Road 1, Ada. For more details on the venue check its website or Facebook.
The 41st annual Music Feast will take place at the Ada Schools on Saturday.
Here is this year’s schedule of show choirs performances:
8:30 a.m. - Riverdale, Mt. Blanchard
9:00 a.m. – River Valley, Marion
9:30 a.m. - Kenton
10:00 a.m. – Alliance
11:00 a.m. - South Dearborn, Mich.
11:30 a.m. – Piqua
12:00 p.m. - Teays Valley, Pickaway County
12:30 p.m. - Strongsville
1:00 p.m. - Ada (free to the Ada community)
1:30 p.m. – Findlay
Tickets may purchased at the door at $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, and $5 for students.
The Ohio Northern University Women’s Chorus will present a concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2 in Presser Hall. The group will perform an a cappella arrangement of “For Good" from the Broadway musical “Wicked” and other women’s chorus repertoire by some of the following composers: Ola Gjeilo, Johannes Brahms and James Mulholland. The concert is free and open to the public.
