A photography exhibit titled “March to Freedom” is now on display at the Elzay Gallery from now through April 6. The exhibition is presented in collaboration The University of Texas at Austin and the LBJ Presidential Library.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, joined other civil rights leaders including to lead peaceful demonstrations and conduct nonviolent acts of civil disobedience publicizing the need for equal rights, including a national voting rights law.
Though spring has officially arrived, the American Red Cross blood supply is still recovering from severe winter storms in March. Donors of all blood types are urged to roll up a sleeve and help save lives. Two upcoming opportunities in Hardin County are:
Monday, March 26, noon-6 p.m., First Baptist Church, 11543 CR 175, Kenton
Thursday, March 29, 10-4, ONU McIntosh Center, Ada
Drug Take Back Day will be held on Saturday, April 28, in Ada and three other locations in Hardin County. People with expired and unused prescriptions and over-the-counter medications and supplements may drop them off between 9-11 a.m. In the parking lot between Rite Aid and COSI on South Main. Medicated lotions and sunscreens will be accepted, too. (No syringes)
The items will be disposed of in a safe, legal, and environmentally conscious manner.
Four Ohio Northern students have completed training to join the University Innovation Fellows program, which is run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
The students, who are enrolled in ONU’s Smull College of Engineering, are Connor Hull of Algonquin, Ill.; Matthew Schweinefuss of Liberty Township, Ohio; Georgia Snelling of Findlay; and Matt Walker of Hilliard.
The program encourages student leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.
Students who are selected for this program are sponsored by faculty and administrators and selected through an application process twice annually.
The United Way of Hardin County paid tribute to four supporters of the local organization. They are (from left) Jay Bostelman and Eric Rudasill of Precision Strip, Randy Rogers and Beryl Rogers-Dudek of Rogers Nationwide Insurance, and Chris Burns-DiBiasio, Dr. Daniel DiBiasio and Matthew Phillips of the Ohio Northern University. (Photo by Dan Robinson, Kenton Times)
Those who know Olwin know that this is rare, especially in a football context. But the former Ada head coach, who just announced his retirement last week, was asked a question.
“Did Aaron Everhart ever get tired?”
Chuckles came in thick and heavy through the phone, and the response was delayed: “Sometimes.”
