Ohio Northern University is the host site of a fertilizer applicator certification training event set for Tuesday, March 1.
A three-hour certification program for any applicator who does not have a pesticide license will be offered March 1 from 1 - 4 p.m. in the McIntosh Center.
Agricultural fertilizer applicator certification is now required for farmers who apply fertilizer to more than 50 acres of agricultural production grown primarily for sale.
Apollo Career Center launched Career Tech Education Month with its annual all area boards meeting on Feb. 4.
The program highlights included an update by Superintendent Judy Wells on the progress of the seven-phase construction/renovation of Apollo Career Center.
Following that was the induction of five alumni into the Apollo Hall of Fame:
• Chris Smith, Apollo Career Center tech specialist
• David Blackston, LMH imaging engineer
• Leigh McCullough-Steinke, LMH clinical buyer
• Ashley Miller, Owner/President of Quality Welding and Fabrication, Elida
• Brad Webb, Apollo Construction Equipment instructor
Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present the comedy of Jon Reep and Etta May in the Freed Center on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.
As an actor, Reep has played the pot-smoking farmer Raymus in the movie “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” and the dim-witted cop Gerald Bob on the ABC sitcom “Rodney.”
He played a goodwill worker in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie” and was the HEMI guy in Dodge Truck’s popular ad campaign. As a comedian, he was the winner of season five of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.”
Editor's note:This is the fourth article in a series describing business and industry located in Grass Run Industrial Park.
By Monty Siekerman
Everyone knows there is yellow and white corn, but there is also blue and red corn. All four speciality varieties are grown by Denny Hensel and his family.
The various colors of corn go into producing Harvest Pride Tortilla Chips at a new facility built in Ada's industrial park.
Hensel and his family farm 1,700 acres of beans and corn about four miles east of Ada along State Route 701. They've done this for five generations.
