Competition teams from the Ohio Northern University College of Engineering earned strong finishes at the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)s Region 2 Student Activities Conference hosted by Cleveland State University from April 8-10.
ONU’s Sumo Robot team, made up of Tyler Germann, a senior electrical engineering major from New Haven, Ind., and Bryan Wilson, a senior electrical engineering major from Jeannette, Pa., placed third. In a sumo robot competition, teams construct an autonomous robot that fights to push an opponent out of a ring.
Deborah Bish from Ada, shown with the Bluffton Community Market manager, Mike Love, was the Shopping Spree winner at the Market on May 7.
The Bluffton Lions Club sponsored the shopping spree as a way to gain proceeds for their scholarship program. Winnings from this spree and other projects conducted by the Lions Club make it able to again give six scholarships for seniors in the area schools of Bluffton, Pandora-Gilboa and Cory-Rawson.
These scholarship winners will be announced at the school’s annual awards session this week.
Ken Collins stopped and smelled the flowering trees blooming in Ada. He shoots digital and film and as he puts it: "I keep flirting with shooting black-and-white film occasionally and developing it myself, like the good old days." This photo was taken with 35-mm Fuji film in an old, but good, Pentax Spotmatic F camera. (Ken Collins photo)
Freshman Kylie Asmus was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Softball Rookie of the Year announced Friday afternoon.
The Polar Bears saw four members garner All-Conference honors.
Asmus and sophomore Kirsten Lightel earned Second Team All-OAC honors, while senior Amanda Lahti and sophomore Jenna Hollar were named Honorable Mention.
Asmus led ONU this season in hits (59) and doubles (13). The freshman recorded a career-high four hits in an 8-3 victory over Heidelberg.
She has recorded three or more hits in six games this season, three of which were during conference play.
Frederick E. “Fred” Fisher, 75, died on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 11:15 p.m. at Bluffton Hospital, Bluffton.
He was born on April 2, 1941 in Bluffton, Ohio, to Basil W. and Eleanor (McElwain) Fisher who preceded him in death. On Oct. 2, 1993, he married Betty Lou Smith and she survives in LaFayette.
Fred retired from Ford Motor Company as a repairman where he had worked for over 30 years. He attended the County Line Church of the Brethren. He was a U.S. Army veteran having served in Vietnam. He was a lifetime member of the Ada VFW Post #9381 and the Lima BPOE Lodge #54.
