Smith will reflect on accomplishments from 2024 and discuss plans for the year ahead. Her speech will highlight the teamwork behind Lima’s revitalization efforts and provide an update on the community aquatic center, which is set to open around Memorial Day.
Many people gathered in Wapakoneta Friday evening for a festival raising awareness about a rare neurological disorder in kids.
Many families with kids aged 0 to 5 attended a community developmental screening Tuesday evening. The Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities hosted the free and public screening at Marimor School to help provide parents an assessment on their child's gross and fine motor skills, hearing, vision, speech as well as regular growth, dental, behavioral needs, and possible autism indicators.
For more than 35 years the Lima Sertoma Club has been helping children with developmental speech assistance. Each summer, they offer speech and hearing clinics to fill the gap for kids that normally have speech and hearing programs during the school year.
Members from the service club started cooking chili as early as 8 a.m. Thursday morning in order to meet the high demand that the annual project brings. All proceeds will go towards helping speech and hearing projects, such as scholarships for those who are pursuing degrees, as well as helping the local community.
The Republican governor said Tuesday that the speech is set for March 23 in the Ohio House Chamber. DeWine delivered his first and only state of the state address in 2019. He postponed, then canceled, his March 2020 speech because it would have violated social distancing restrictions associated with the budding COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus also led DeWine to skip the speech last year. DeWine faces both primary and general election competition this year.
