Wednesday is known as "Hump Day" and it was literally so at ONU this week when students took turns, two riders at a time, on one of the hump-back beasts.
MORE PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM.
A handler walked the camel around a roped off area for the bumpy ride. Steps led up to the camel's seats, so mounting the animal was easy. A long line of students awaited their turn in chilly weather, a few snow flakes in the air, probably unlike the camel's native home in the hot deserts of the Middle East.
Not a cloud in the sky and not one disappointed Ada youngster on Saturday. The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce with lots of volunteers hosted a great way to greet spring on Saturday.
The kid-oriented event had games, face painting, a kids' railroad, opportunity to make musical instruments, check in with Santa, plant a tree and take home a tree seeding.
There was lots, lot more.
Monty Siekerman provides Icon viewers with a photo scrapbook of the event. Open the attachment below for more photos.
It was robot football at ONU this past weekend feature the Polar Bears vs. Notre Dame.
The visitors scored the first two touchdowns making the score 12-0. The downhearted crowd soon was joyous as ONU closed the gap by scoring 10 straight points, including a 99-yard-run that brought the crowd to its feet. The final score was ND 26, ONU 21.
CHECK OUT MONTY SIEKERMAN'S PHOTOS BELOW.
Robots don't get broken bones or concussions, but they do break down and are temporarily sidelined. The robot football game drew 400 excited spectators...the crowd was partial to the home team.
Fifty years ago this week Bluffton experienced the sound of “a thousand freight trains.”
That sound was the Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965, tornado.
At 9:45 p.m., it ripped across the rural Richland and Orange Township landscape. It was like no other natural disaster experienced prior or since then in this community.
Had the tornado’s path been one mile north it would have struck the Village of Bluffton. Had it been 600 feet farther north it would have hit 32 planes parked at the Bluffton Airport.
