A Lima lawmaker was honored with a portrait to remember his service as Ohio's Senate president. They unveiled the official portrait of Matt Huffman to hang with the other Senate president portraits in the statehouse. Huffman served four years as Senate president and will be moving to the House of Representatives in the new session that starts in January. He will be the first person to move from the Senate president's seat to the speaker of the House seat in back-to-back terms. Family, friends, and past and present elected officials were on hand for the dedication, and some spoke about his service as a state lawmaker.

The Elder Victim Ministry at Crime Victim Services commissioned a portrait series to reflect the full range of the elderly population in our area and one of the names that came to mind to be featured was Putnam County resident, the late Vicenta "Cindy" Velasquez.

A project helped connect Lima students and children in Cameroon. The Memory Project had Lima Senior High School Students receive pictures of orphaned children in Cameroon in West-Central Africa.