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.
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.
The Village of Bluffton and Allen County Regional Planning are partnering this fall in a $65,420 safety study of State Route 103. The study is part of a much larger project, which could eventually lead to road improvements on the state route.
(Note: the cost of the study was updated from its original posting on Sept. 22)
The study’s focus is from the Norfolk Southern Railroad crossing on Jefferson (SR 103) to Interstate 75.
Regional planning’s share of the project is $50,000 and the village’s is $15,420.
