Ohio Northern University students are assisting with the annual “Night to Shine” prom event for people with special needs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb. 8 at Lima First Church, 1660 Findlay Road, Lima.
It is anticipated more than 140 individuals will attend the event, and approximately 150 ONU students will be involved in the evening. They include students from areas such as Greek Life, Sigma Iota Epsilon management honor fraternity, the football team, religious life and education majors.
Each ONU student has a buddy for the event, and all come dressed in prom apparel for the big night out.
OTC Markets Group Inc., today announced Liberty Bancshares Inc., the holding company for Liberty National Bank, headquartered in Ada, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX Best Market. Liberty Bancshares were previously privately-held.
The OTCQX is the top tier of the three marketplaces for the over-the-counter trading of stocks.
Liberty Bancshares begins trading under the symbol “LBSI.” Financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for the company are on www.otcmarkets.com.
We don't know if this library groundhog saw its shadow. But, we do know that on Feb. 2 it experienced a 36-degree range is temperatures. The high on Groundhog's Day was 41. The low was 5. Anyway, this groundhog appears to be thinking of Valentine's Day, when temperatures are "warm."
The Ada girls basketball team received a first round bye and was seeded 12th out of 12 teams at the Allen East/Bath Div. IV super sectional drawing held Sunday afternoon.
The Lady Bulldogs (1-17) will face the first round winner between top-seeded Arlington and 11th-seeded Hardin Northern Saturday, Feb. 23, at 6:15 p.m. in Harrod at Allen East.
Ada and fifth-seeded Leipsic both got first round byes for the six-team half of the sectional at AE.
Third seed Bluffton will meet 10th seed Pandora-Gilboa in the second sectional semifinal at AE. The winner then plays Leipsic in the other sectional final Saturday, Feb. 23.
Sophomore Stella DeWitt (Weston/Cardinal Stritch) won the long jump and the triple jump while junior Maggie Krause (Chagrin Falls/Kenston) captured the pole vault title to guide the Ohio Northern women's track and field team to a second-place finish at the annual Joe Banks Invitational, held Saturday inside the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse.
Otterbein won the meet with 203 points, Ohio Northern was second with 177 points, and Hanover (Ind.) was third with 86 points.
