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Foster recognized for social justice, academic career
By Mackenzi Klemann - mklemann@limanews.com
Zoey Foster, left, receives the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Educational Excellence Award, presented by Lima City Councilor Derry Glenn at Lima Central Catholic High School on Friday.
LIMA Zoey Foster’s passion for social justice developed early. The Lima Central Catholic senior, who has maintained a 4.4 grade-point average and scored within the top 1% nationally on the ACT exam, once spent her allowance on toothpaste, deodorant and other necessities that were donated to a Lima homeless shelter when Foster was still in fifth grade.
For her senior capstone project, Foster studied the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal organization that has overturned wrongful convictions across the U.S.
Jim Krumel: People are busy making spring travel plans, but should they?
Jim Krumel
That’s not happening though.
More Ohioans are making plans to lock up their houses for a week or two this spring and go somewhere anywhere be there a pandemic or no pandemic.
Cindy Nelson is seeing it play out in Lima, and so is Patrick DeHaan statewide.
Nelson, the manager of Lima AAA, has continually watched people come into the travel service with one thing on their mind, a road trip.
They’re not just talking about taking short jaunts, either.
“We have people looking at driving out to the Grand Canyon, especially if they have kids who are doing remote learning,” she said. “They’re taking advantage of the time to be able to do that.”