CANTON - Ada freshman swimmer Klava Katayama finished 17th out of 24 swimmers in the 100 freestyle preliminary heats at the Div. II state meet held Friday evening in the C.T. Branin Natatorium.
Katayama finished the 100 free in 53.63 to post the 17th-best time in the three preliminary heats. Her 50-yard splits were 25.39 and 28.24.
She just missed making it to the B Finals 100 freestyle race Friday. Only the top 16 finishers by time in an event make it to the finals.
The top eight advance to the A Finals, while nine through 16 compete in the B Finals.
Deb Curlis, marketing director of Community Health Professionals and retired president of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce was named the 2016 Hardin County Citizen of the Year at the Hardin Chamber and Business Alliance annual meeting Feb. 23 in McIntosh Center. See the story, videos and photos below.
The award was presented to a full house of friends and acquaintances at the 11th annual membership meeting and award ceremony of the Hardin County Chamber Business and Alliance.
The dinner meeting was in McIntosh Center Feb. 23.
ONU will play for the OAC crown against No. 3-seeded Wilmington at home in Ada at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The winner gets an automatic bid to the NCAA III tourney.
The No. 5-ranked Ohio Northern women's basketball team used a defensive effort to defeat Marietta 61-60 in Thursday evening's Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal round to advance to the OAC Tournament championship on Saturday afternoon.
The Polar Bears move to 26-0 overall with the victory.
With Northern up by one point and Marietta in possession of the final shot, junior Amy Bullimore (Morrow/Little Miami) recorded back-to-back blocks to seal the Polar Bear victory.
Daniel Walker (left), president of Kokosing Industrial in Westerville, and Charles Leader, founder of Leader Fabricating in Napoleon, are this year's recipients of distinguished alumni awards from the engineering college. Kokosing is one of the largest contractors in the Midwest with annual sales of $1 billion. Walker is vice chair of the ONU board of trustees. Leader, who grew up on a farm in McComb, holds several patents. His company designs solutions and machines for companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia
This is the second installment of revealing the history of Ada and ONU through the artifacts that have been passed down family member to family member and estate to collector.
As was revealed in the earlier piece, these collectables may seem so strange to us today but there was a time when a memento of one’s connection to place and/or alma mater was as normal as taking a selfie with the Ada Village sign today.
The artifacts presented in this offering are three china cups of different shapes and sizes, all with the ONU Administration Building and a china plate with the afore mentioned building and four others.
