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900 chicken dinners for a great cause

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 28, 2016

By Monty Siekerman

Grace Gospel Church held a fundraiser on Thursday evening, selling 900 chicken dinners.

The profit from the endeavor goes to help with medical expenses for Amelia Griffin, who is fighting cancer.

She is the four-year-old daughter of Beau and Christina Griffin.

Pictured is Pastor Trent Boedicker and son Shay, 4, going home, nextdoor to the church, with one of the dinners.

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Call it Poly Sorb or Elephant Snot - whatever you call it - it makes trees live longer

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 28, 2016

Story and photo by Monty Siekerman

They call it "elephant snot," but members of the tree commission love the stuff because it makes small trees live longer in bags.

The real term for the gooey mixture is Poly Sorb, something that members of the commission add to plastic bags before putting in a dawn redwood sapling.

The trees will be handed out to all Ada third graders on Friday in recognition of National Arbor Day.

Pictured are (from left) Dick Lawrence, a member of the commission for over 30 years; Angela Polackek, assistant village administrator; and Terry Keiser, village forester.

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More spring clean-up and spruce-up in Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 28, 2016

The Ada Village office is getting a spring tune-up this week. (Photos by Ken Collins)

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Spring has sprung

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 28, 2016

Is it really spring if bees and dandelions are back? This photo by Ken Collins proves that those yellow "plants" coming up in Ada yards means that spring is here. And, those flying insects simply add to the fun.

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Instantly measuring throws to an accuracy of 1 millimeter

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, April 27, 2016

On April 22 and 23, the ONU track team hosted the Polar Bear Invitational regional track meet on campus.

Four ONU College of Engineering students added a new twist to the meet.

The Four civil engineering majors put their surveying skills to work during the event. They measured discus, hammer, and javelin throws using electronic surveying equipment.

By using a Topcon ES107 Total Station, the engineering students were able to instantly measure throws to an accuracy of 1 millimeter. The engineering students were Eric Barnes, Michael Kimberlin, Sophia Ribas Teixeiras and Tom Smallwood.

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Dicke College of Business Administration ranked No. 45 in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Ohio Northern University’s Dicke College of Business Administration has been ranked No. 45 in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek in the publication’s annual ranking of undergraduate business programs. This ranking is up 27 spots from the previous year. In addition, the report shows that 68.8 percent of graduates of the Dicke College of Business Administration now work for the company for which they interned.

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