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Aaron Belcher fires a 78, named all conference first team

Lincolnview won the Northwest Conference golf tournament in an 18-hole tournament played at Hickory Sticks Golf Club in Van Wert. The first-place tournament finish also clinched the overall 2016 conference golf championship for the Lancers.

The Lancers had a team total 338 to defeat tournament runner-up Spencerville (361) by 23 strokes.  Other tournament team totals were:  Columbus Grove (370), Paulding (372), (Bluffton 377), Crestview (388), Delphos Jefferson (401), Allen East (411), Ada (514).

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New OSU event gives K-12 students a chance to try out science, technology, engineering, arts and math

Registration for Ohio State’s STEAM on the Quad is now open. 

STEAM on the Quad is a new, family-friendly event where kids in grades K-12 will be able to do hands-on activities that will improve their knowledge and interest in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math fields. It will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, on the Ohio State Lima Quad.

STEAM on the Quad is a collaborative project between The Ohio State University at Lima and OSU Extension and is supported in part by the Ohio 4-H Foundation.

Jamie Lynn Smith, assistant professor of English, will present the colloquium "In This World but Not of It: Literary Fiction and Spiritual Conflict” on Oct. 7. 

Smith’s presentation will focus on the intersection of Christianity and writing through personal examples. She will also perform a reading of her story “Because it Means ‘God is Gracious.’” 

Smith will also focus on questions of faith and how they’re played out in literary fiction. Her presentation is free and open to the public beginning at 4 p.m. in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.  

Apollo school board will meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, in the Apollo board room, 3325 Shawnee Road, Lima. The board agenda is an attachment to this story.

The Wilson Sporting Goods football garage sale is from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 24, 217 Liberty Street, Ada.

The sale includes hundreds of footballs, baseball gloves, shoes, clothes, tennis items and additional sporting good items.

Columbus Crew Soccer Club will hold one of its winter camps at Bluffton Family Recreation in January.

The one-day camp is Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, from 9 a.m. to noon. It is open to youth ages 5 to 14. Registration is $75 per youth.

Camps will focus on player development through a core foundation of soccer skills and a challenging learning environment.  A wide range of technical training will be included such as dribbling, passing, controlling and finishing.

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