Inside the Civic Center, hundreds of volunteers spend the day before and the day of Thanksgiving preparing and serving thousands of meals for the community feast.
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Dozens of volunteers spent Wednesday preparing for Thursday’s Compassionate Ministries Thanksgiving Feast, transforming the Veterans Memorial Civic Center into a hub of activity ahead of the holiday meal.
The 2025 Community Thanksgiving Meal, hosted by Compassionate Ministries of Lima, returns Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Civic Center, continuing a decades-long tradition of welcoming anyone seeking food and fellowship.
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A new roundabout is now open at the intersection of Thayer Road and State Route 81, part of the Ohio Department of Transportation’s effort to improve traffic safety across the state.
Tim Fitzpatrick, Business & Work Development Lead for AEDG, said, “We have really good relationships with a lot of the companies around the Allen County area. We like to keep those relationships pretty positive, so that we're able to visit with them regularly and find out what is going on to support their needs.”
This year marked the fourth annual event hosted by the Allen County Veterans Service Commission. Approximately 300 veterans and their families received free meals and participated in raffles and other activities.
ALLEN COUNTY, Ohio (WLIO) — An infrastructure project at Procter & Gamble is on the fast track to completion.
Economic development is a complicated process that has many ways to assist businesses looking to grow. Friday, Allen County Commissioners, the Allen Economic Development Group, the Port Authority of Allen County, the county engineer, and the Ohio Department of Transportation representatives met to discuss road infrastructure. It was related to Procter & Gamble's $500,000,000 expansion of a new scent bead plant. The Allen Economic Development Group and others have worked to obtain federal and grant dollars to fund a portion of a roundabout on Thayer Road for Procter & Gamble's truck entrance.
Heir Force Community School students getting some hands-on STEM learning. Volunteer engineers and workers from Procter & Gamble helped students learn about and build their own electromagnetics. The school assigned the students an essay a week prior to the lab to get familiar with electromagnets and what they do. Heir Force executive director Dr. Willie Heggins understands that for some students, learning in an interactive experiment and not just through a textbook can be more effective.
On Monday, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved a tax break for the $501 million expansion project. The Lima plant will be the only P&G plant in the world to produce their Gain and Downey Unstoppable Laundry Scent Beads. Currently, those products are being made by contract manufacturers. The sales of that product line have grown exponentially since it launched 11 years ago. If the project gets its final approvals, P&G will be building a new plant between the current Lima Plant and the distribution center.