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Sophomore Christiaan Williams (Sidney/Anna) has been named to the D3Football.comTeam of the Week for his efforts in Ohio Northern's 51-21 victory over Capital on Oct. 7.

Williams broke ONU's 17-year old single game rushing record, compiling 407 yards on 29 rushes.

The sophomore also added three touchdowns in the victory as he broke Ohio Northern Hall of Famer Jamal Robertson's previous single game record of 307 rushing yards.

Williams also caught one pass for five yards for a total of 412 all-purpose yards, breaking Robertson's single game record of 406 yards also set in 2000.

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Ada Rotarians gave dictionaries to third graders on Wednesday. Pictured with some of the students in the background are Jamie Hall, village administrator, and Mark Wipper of the ONU development staff.

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Senior J.J. Fortner (Maumee/Anthony Wayne) scored two first half goals to help lift the Ohio Northern men's soccer team to a 4-0 shutout victory over No. 8-ranked Heidelberg on Wednesday in Ada.

The Polar Bears improve to 9-4-1 overall, and 2-2-0 in the Ohio Athletic Conference and handed Heidelberg its first loss of the season to drop the Student Princes to 9-1-1, 2-1-1.

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Linda L. Vermillion, age 73, died on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 12:15 p.m. at her residence in Ada. 

She was born on April 6, 1944 in Hardin County, Ohio to Otas W. and Annabelle M.(Smith) Reese, who preceded her in death. 

On June 1, 1963, she married Thomas J. Vermillion and he survives in Ada. 

Linda retired as a cook from Ada Schools. 

She formerly worked as a dispatcher for the Ada Police Department and as a cook at the Ada Kentucky Fried Chicken. 

She was a 1962 graduate of McGuffey High School and then received her beautician's license from Fredrick's Beauty College in Lima. 

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ONU music and theatre arts students will present "Carrie the Musical" at the Freed Center from Oct. 19-22.

The show is adapted from Stephen King's horror novel "Carrie" but has gone through many rewrites from the time the musical was originally produced in England to a limited 1988 Broadway production to an 0ff Broadway revival.

Briefly, here's the story: Carrie White is a misfit - awkward, unattractive, heavy.  At school, she’s an outcast who’s bullied by the popular crowd and virtually invisible to everyone else.

Kevin Hines jumped off the Golden Gate bridge and lived to tell about it; now he talks about suicide prevention

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By Monty Siekerman
How do you keep 70 people in rapt attention for two hours when discussing suicide?

How do you add genuine humor to a talk about suicide?

You speak from the heart, relaying your personal experience of surviving a suicide attempt.

And, you give the talk over and over and over, hoping to save the lives of those who might attempt suicide and save the heart-wrenching grief that comes to family and friends when death from suicide occurs.

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