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Last Saturday was Ada's fall event. This weekend it's Bluffton's turn.

FROM THE BLUFFTON ICON - The Bluffton community’s 12th annual Fall Festival, with many family-oriented activities, takes place throughout the community on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.

Ada High School's girls' tennis team moved to 14-5 overall blanking Lima Central Catholic 5-0 on Sept. 23.

Singles
Mackenzie Wills (A) def Emily Scheiwiller (LCC) 6-0,6-0
Casey Swick (A) def Kim Gonzalez (LCC) 6-2,6-0
Olivia Gonder (A) def Olivia Jeffers (LCC) 6-0,6-0

Doubles
Libbie Milks / Meredith Morgan (A) def Shelby Young / Morgan Schroeder (LCC) 6-1, 6-4
Meredith Marshall / Hailey Maier (A) def Cassandra Stuber / Kenya Manley-Banks (LCC) 6-1,6-0

 

By Mark Badertscher, OSU Extension Educator

During the month of August, Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 2.50 inches of rain. 

The most rain for this month, 3.90 inches, fell in Hale Township as measured by Tim Ramsey.  The least rain reported during the month, 1.56 inches was reported in Liberty Township by Phil Epley. 

During the same month last year, an average of 3.73 inches of rain fell. The rainfall recorded in August over the past ten years averaged 4.14 inches. 

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law presents Jeremy Telman, professor of law at Valparaiso University Law School, as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series in the Celebrezze Moot Court Room on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 11 a.m.

The title of Telman’s presentation is “Originalism: A Thing Worth Doing…” The event is free and open to the public.

According to Telman, “Justice Antonin Scalia’s defense of originalism relies crucially on his argument that ‘a thing worth doing is worth doing badly,’ a motto that captures early originalism’s self-consciousness of its own limitations as a methodology of constitutional interpretation.

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present the 2015 Kormendy Lecture in the Large Moot Court Room on Friday, Oct. 2, at 11 a.m. The program will feature a presentation on “Self-Management and Mindful Awareness in Law School and Beyond” by Leonard Riskin, Chesterfield Smith professor of law at the University of Florida College of Law and Harris H. Agnew visiting professor at Northwestern School of Law.

The Ohio Northern University Department of Psychology, Sociology and Criminal Justice has announced that the 2015 graduating seniors in psychology, as a group, scored in the 98th percentile on the Major Field Test (MFT) in psychology.

The mean score of the 221 institutions using the MFT in the 2014-15 academic year in psychology was 156. ONU psychology students scored 180. ONU’s performance was equally impressive in each of the four subsets: learning, cognition and memory (95th percentile); perception, sensation and physiology (99th percentile); clinical, abnormal and personality (99th percentile); and developmental and social psychology (95th percentile).

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