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ONU senior setter second team women’s All-American in VB

By Caleb Scott

Senior setter Ashley Borchers (Russia) has been named Second Team All-America by the American Volleyball Coaches Association for 2016.

Borchers is a 3-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference honoree and a two-time First Team AVCA All-Great Region honoree.

The senior led the team with 1,032 assists and ranked first on the team and in the OAC with a .398 hitting percentage.

The 2016 OAC Co-Player of the Year ended her career ranked sixth all-time at Ohio Northern with 3,317 career assists.

Junior Haley Potters (Wheelersburg/South Webster) was also named Honorable Mention All-America as a First team All-Region award winner.

Bluffton peparing for Blaze of Lights Nov. 26

Bluffton is preparing for its Blaze of Lights. This year's Blaze is Saturday, Nov. 26.

To get things started, volunteers placed cutouts from the Ream holiday folk art display on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn on Saturday.

Watch the Icon for the Blaze schedule.

Squirrel lunch etiquette

There are proper ways for squirrels to eat corn cobs, and here's proof. Ken Collins photographed this Ada squirrel having lunch earlier this week. There are additional photos of lunch below.

ONU art professor's works in Bluffton University gallery show

Emily Jay has 34 photographs on exhibition

By Monty Siekerman
Ohio Northern University Art Professor Emily Jay points to a plaster mold of her feet that she photographed to show how landscape affects us. How does this photo show landscape with no trees, mountains, or oceans?

Emily explained that she buried the plaster molds in the dirt in Norway. Upon digging them up a month later, she discovered them cracked, moldy, and slimy...thus, the terrain and weather in Norway affected her molds.

This is just one of 34 photographs on display in the Bluffton University Sauder Visual Arts Center's Grace Albrecht Gallery on Spring Street.

The verdit is in: Here's the Fest' of Trees cookie contest winners

Winners include: date pinwheel, oatmeal raisin, brown sugar pecan and chocolate chip

By Monty Siekerman
Winners of the Festival of Trees cookie baking contest at Community Health Professionals were determined Monday evening by a panel of judges.

It was rumored that each judge was chosen because he had a sweet tooth.
Lucky judges were (seated, from left) Van Curlis, John Berg, Matt Crawford, (standing, from left) Kevin Mierzejewski and Alec Perrin.

Raabe College of Pharmacy holds Professional Commitment Ceremony

Where students take an oath of professional commitment

The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy recently conducted its annual Professional Commitment Ceremony in the ONU Sports Center.

Dr. Chet Kaczor, Ohio Pharmacists Association president elect and director of pharmacy services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, was the keynote speaker at the event. He spoke on “Passion, Purpose and Positivity: Your Prerogative.” Kaczor earned his doctor of pharmacy from ONU’s College of Pharmacy in 2006.

The event marks the transition from the students’ first three years of ONU pharmacy education to their final three professional years in the direct-entry program.

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