ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - The outpouring of volunteers for a southside spruce-up took organizers by surprise.
The newly formed South Lima Community Development Corporation can't say thank you enough to of those who came out to their kick-off event on September 10th. The goal was to paint and clean up around the old Momma Dot's Soul Food Kitchen on St. John's Avenue. Dozens of people showed up and that has the group looking at more improvement projects in the south end of Lima.
"That was one of the projects we wanted to do, and we're going to be doing more of those, but they were really appreciative of it," said Carmillia Zion, secretary for South Lima CDC. "The community came out and we had a great time. We were very surprised with the donations - people would stop by and just give donations if they couldn't make the time to get out there and help us paint it. So it was very nice, it was a great event."
The group does have several projects in the pipeline and a fundraiser in the works. They will be releasing that information in the near future.
