Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
ONU band members put on a free concert under pleasant skies on Friday evening at Railroad Depot Park, directed by none other than Ada's own Susie Young, daughter of Linda and Curtis Young.
The band, consisting of seniors and other upperclassmen who are members of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma honoraries, entertained passers-by with several selections.
This is a traditional "give back to the community" event by band members held annually on commencement weekend.
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)
