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The Ohio State Highway Patrol is urging drivers to be safe this Labor Day weekend. Troopers will focus enforcement efforts on removing impaired drivers from Ohio’s roadways.
The Labor Day weekend reporting period begins Friday, September 1 at 12 a.m. and ends Monday, September 4 at 11:59 p.m.
Ada photographer Ken Collins captured the August 30 "Blue Moon." That's the name for when there is a second full moon in a single month. This is also a Super Moon--it is closer to Earth and looks larger than usual. The next Super Blue Moon won't appear until 2037.
By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
In 1971, songwriter and recording artist John Denver released an album titled Poems, Prayers & Promises. On this album, he had a release called Sunshine on My Shoulders. The length of this song on the album precluded its play on the radio so the single was remixed with one less verse and released in 1974. The song hit number one on the U.S. and Canadian charts.
John Denver was known for his acoustic folk music and was one of the best-selling artists in this genre. He recorded over 300 songs in his lifetime with approximately 200 being written by the artist himself. Denver’s songs transcended multiple genres and he could be heard on different types of radio stations. Many of his hits are still played today such as Take Me Home, Country Road and Rocky Mountain High. Country Roads was adopted in 2007 as the official state song of West Virginia, while Colorado legislated Rocky Mountain High as one of their official songs in 2007.
On August 30, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced 13 individuals who will serve on his newly formed Ohio School Bus Safety Working Group.
Governor DeWine announced the creation of the working group last week following the death of 11-year-old Aiden Clark, a Northwestern Local School District student who was killed when another vehicle collided with his school bus in Clark County.
