Youth ages 4 through 12 grade area invited to a Ohio Northern cheerleaders and coaches cheerleading clinic, The event is Saturday, Oct. 31. Youth will be divided into mini-squads by age!
You can never get enough of the Harvest and Herb Festival.
Here's our final look at this year's community event. Local freelance photographer Kerry Bush of Elysian Fields Photography, Bluffton, shared these photos of the event with the Icon.
Thanks to Lelia Dyer we now know that that the story we posted about a paw paw tree is actually an Osage orange, also known hedge apple, horse apple, monkey ball, or, if you know your French, bois d'arc.
Our story listed many edible uses for paw paw. But Osage orange is seldom eaten due to extremely hard texture and taste. The fruit is not poisonous to humans or livestock, as shown by several studies. The seeds of the fruit are edible and it is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other animals use of it as food source.
During the month of August, Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 2.50 inches of rain.
The most rain for this month, 3.90 inches, fell in Hale Township as measured by Tim Ramsey. The least rain reported during the month, 1.56 inches was reported in Liberty Township by Phil Epley.
During the same month last year, an average of 3.73 inches of rain fell. The rainfall recorded in August over the past ten years averaged 4.14 inches.
The ONU Child Development Center along with Ready, Set, Grow Preschool and ONU Honors Programs will hold a trike-a-thon to raise money for St. Jude's Children Hospital and also for Amelia Griffin.
The event is from 11 a.m. to noon and 2-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept 29, according to June Zimmerman, director of the ONU Child Development Center.
It takes place at 209 S. Union St., Ada, in the Security Building parking lot.
