Mayor Smith emphasized the importance of collaboration in meeting residents’ needs. “So one of the things that I heard today is that if an individual signs up that lives near to Apollo, then they're referred to Apollo, but if they live near Lima City Schools, they're referred to Lima City Schools. And so it's important to have different on-ramps for services in our communities, for individuals,” she said.
The Lima Exchange Club is continuing its mission to support and protect children in Lima and Allen County.
One in six adults in Allen County reads at a 3rd grade level or lower, and these numbers haven't really changed in years. The Northwest Ohio Literacy Council and Lima City Schools want to change that statistic. This week is Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. Lima Mayor Sharetta Smith presented them with a proclamation encouraging individuals struggling with basic academic skills to take advantage of the services offered by these two programs. Reading is something anyone can do, and we as a community need to de-stigmatize the issue of adult literacy.
The Northwest Ohio Literacy Council will be selling tickets for the next round of its designer purse lottery, which starts on May 1, 2024. For $30, you will be entered into the lottery for a whole year. The 52 designer purses will be given away, including a Versace purse worth $2,300.
For 18 years the Northwest Ohio Literacy Council has hit a triple word score with their Scrabble fundraiser. Around a dozen teams were trying to rack up the highest score by finding all the words they could with the letters they had.
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - People came out to play word games to help promote adult literacy.
The Northwest Ohio Literacy Council is charged with working with individuals who are behind on reading skills that can cause them to be left behind in the job market and life in general. With all the virtual learning that was taking place over the Covid-19 pandemic, they are concerned that students may be lagging behind when it comes to literacy.
The Northwest Ohio Literacy Council is using literacy skills in a competitive way to help fundraise for the illiterate.
The annual scrabble tournament has been put on by the Ohio Literacy Council for the past 15 years. Four-person teams pay $20 a player to get a spot at the tournament and try to use their scrabble skills to get the most points. This fundraiser is a part of the council’s mission to teach adults how to read.
Volunteers from the Russels Point Honda transmission plant were in Lima on Saturday to lend a helping hand to a non-profit making a difference in the community. As a part of the Honda Week of Service, the volunteers were helping to plant trees and flowers in the lot next to the Northwest Ohio Literacy Council as well as built a gazebo to give the council an outdoor tutoring space. The project gives Honda employees a chance to get out and leave a positive impact on the communities around them.
