The Hardin County Chamber & Business Alliance is now accepting nominations for the 2016 Citizen of the Year, Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year and Community Service Awards.
Anyone from Hardin County may be nominated to receive these honors. A panel of judges from Alliance members will make the final decision, and the recipients will be revealed Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, during the Alliance's annual meeting held at Ohio Northern University's McIntosh Center.
Selection of Citizen of the Year will be based upon an individual's outstanding achievements and contributions which have made Hardin County better.
The Alger Memorial Festival Committee is sponsoring a country-style breakfast on Saturday, Nov. 5, from 7 to 11 a.m., at the Alger Social Center.
Serving biscuits, sausage gravy, hash-browns, scrambled eggs, fried apples, sausage patties and beverage. Suggested donation is $7. All-you-can-eat (on premises only). Carry out is available.
Call 419-679-8460 (not long distance) for free local delivery. Located at the Alger Social Center on 210 N. Main St. in Alger. Call 419-757-3891 for more information.
Several Ohio Northern University choral groups will perform in the traditional Choral Collage concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, in the Presser Hall Snyder Recital Hall. The inaugural concert of the season will feature the Women’s Chorus, the Men’s Chorus, the University Singers and the Chamber Singers singing pieces by Mendelssohn, Thompson, Byrd, Rutter and others. The concert is free and open to the public.
Author Laura M. Hartman will discuss the ethics of Christian consumerism during a discussion, “What would Jesus buy?” at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1 in the forum of James F. Dicke Hall at Ohio Northern University. The event is free and open to the public.
“The general question of what we consume is important to everyone, and there are certain moral and ethical considerations that especially connect the question to Christian values,” said Forrest Clingerman, associate professor of philosophy and religion at ONU. “When purchasing an item, is it really going to help me love my neighbor?”
From the ONU website
Dr. Robert Alexander has never seen anything like this. He’s never seen anything even close to this.
The professor of political science and chair of the Department of History, Politics and Justice, Alexander does more than follow political elections; he’s a leading authority on presidential elections and the Electoral College.
So, if the race for the White House 2016 has you shaking your head, don’t worry. Even the pros can’t believe what they’re seeing.
For Alexander, there are two aspects to the 2016 presidential election that he finds fascinatingly bizarre:
