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Memorial Day events highlight the weekend
By Staff Reports - info@limanews.com
Steve Montgomery lays a wreath during a Memorial Day ceremony in 2018 at the VFW in Lima. Events are different in Lima for this year’s Memorial Day celebration, with a walk from the VFW to the flagpole at Town Square planned before the annual ceremony.
LIMA Residents will get their chance to honor the men and women who paid for freedom with their lives this weekend, with an assortment of Memorial Day events planned in the region.
Lima’s annual event will be different. A gathering will start at 11 a.m. Monday at VFW Post 1275, at the corner of East Elm and South Main streets in Lima. At 11:30 a.m., they will march north toward the flagpole at Lima’s Town Square. At noon, the flag will raise from half staff to full staff, with the playing of Taps.
Midwest Electric members donate $17,200 to 19 local causes via the co-opâs Community Connection Fund
Information submitted Midwest Electric donated to Portal 2:20 Teen Center. (Photo submitted) Midwest Electric donated to Ohio City Warrior Trail. (Photo submitted) Midwest Electric donated to YMCA. (Photo submitted) • • •
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MARYS, OH Midwest Electric recently donated $17,200 to 19
west-central Ohio charities and community projects through the
cooperative’s Community Connection Fund.
Thanks to the 89% of
members who round up their electric bill and donate to this fund,
Midwest Electric has provided $1,200,114 to 1,030 local charitable
causes since 1998.
The latest recipients of grants include Cancer
Association of Mercer County, Mercer County; $250 for an air purifier