The Lima Kiwanis Club is hosting its annual spring Diva’s Den, offering free prom dresses to high school students ahead of prom season. The longtime community project helps ease financial stress for families while ensuring teens can participate in the milestone event.
“We found that there was real need for it, not only from a financial point of view, but so many of the stores that sold that kind of thing are no longer here, and we’re finding girls are finding it harder and harder to get a dress, and so they come there, they find what they want, and it saves their parents a great deal of money,” said Candi Newland of the Lima Kiwanis Club.
The Probate and Juvenile divisions of the Allen County Common Pleas Court will be closed on Friday June 13th for purposes of conducting their annual meeting and employee in-service training.
The Diva’s Den was open for business at the Lima Masonic Center on Saturday for anyone interested in needing a free prom dress. Dresses in all different sizes and colors were hung for people to browse through, and there were even a selection of shoes to choose from.
Now that Governor Mike DeWine has given the go-ahead for prom season, it’s time to get ready. The Lima Kiwanis Club will be holding their “Diva Den” event this Saturday. It will be a chance for young ladies to come in and pick a prom dress from the hundreds on the racks and take it home for FREE. That’s right – FREE. For more than a decade the “Diva Den” has provided quality dresses, some gently used and some that have never been worn to dozens of young women from around the region.
