Xinyue Zhang
Meaning of her name: Moon
English pronunciation: Ariel
Your nationality: Chinese
Year at ONU: Sophomore
Major at ONU: Pharmacy Interviewed by Elizaveta Dyachuk
Liberty Belles and Boys 4-H Club will host an information night and registration from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, at First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Main St., Ada.
Eligibility for participation in 4-H projects and competitive events begins when a child is age 8 and in the 3rd grade.
Any youth 9 older is eligible for project membership, regardless of grade level. Membership requires enrollment in an authorized Ohio 4-H club or group under the direction of an OSU Extension professional or an approved adult volunteer.
What classes are you taking this semester? Nicolas: Sociology, communications/economics, physics, film and lit, digital graphics, calculus, and Spanish 4.
What do you want to do after high school? Nicolas: I hope to become a therapist, earning my degree at ONU. I would like to travel to Austria and be a therapist at an international hotel since my German is not great. If I’m passionate enough about psychology I might become a professor, but I’m not sure yet though.
The March Vancrest resident spotlight is on a familiar Ada resident, Evelyn “Myrtle” Krofft.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s she was Ada’s Welcome Wagon hostess.
Born in Detroit, she and her husband, Robert, moved to Ada after they were married in 1947.
Evelyn was a stay at home mom until her youngest child was 5. She soon went to work as the produce manager at the Ada IGA Food liner, now known as Community Market.
Evelyn says that she loved to travel with her family, going on many vacations to different states, either tent camping at state parks, sight-seeing, museums, zoos, and even caving.
Her driver’s license lists Feb. 29 as her date of birth, but next year when she has it renewed, she’ll need to do it on March 1. (The DMV told her that she wouldn’t have been born yet on Feb. 28).
By Barbara Lockard
Nina Buchan is a sophomore psychology major at Ohio Northern University. She lives on campus, attends classes by herself and manages to keep up with her studies.
Not unusual, except that according to official records, Nina is just 5 years old.
As far as this publication can determine, Buchan is the only ONU student and, possibly the only Ada resident, with a Feb. 29 birthday.
As we look forward to this extra Leap Year day on Saturday, Buchan expects a rather quiet birthday celebration. A little more hoopla may be in order when you consider that she has a birthday just once every four years!
