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21-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Lima Memorial Day Parade to return with surprises
May 20—LIMA — A few special things will be in store for attendees at this year's Lima Memorial Day Parade. The event will start at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26, moving from Northland Plaza toward downtown along North Main Street and featuring a full military section, national anthem singers and a larger celebration afterward. "We're really focused on why the parade takes place," Friends of Lima organizer Aaron Poling said. "I don't want to lose sight of why we're doing the Memorial Day Parade. So we have a full military section that is very serious and it will be very impactful for those that have served so we can show them honor." Poling and his wife Adena said it is important to them to follow in the tradition of her father Mark Moore, who organized the parade for 30 years. "He had lost his leg in Vietnam and we went three or four years without having a parade because he never chose his replacement and we'd never done a parade before," Aaron Poling said. "We figured we had gone too many years with it and we jumped in with two feet and we'd do it the rest of our lives. We wanted to do it as an homage to Mark Moore and those who had the privilege to serve." The parade will line up at 9 a.m., but when it will start an hour later when singers at each intersection along the route break into the national anthem. About 20 minutes later, there will be a military flyover. "This year is different from last year," Poling said. "We'll have an after-parade party at the Central District Building where they've got all the construction done. There will be lots of parking and we will be roasting two pigs at The Social House." The band Never Again will perform from 1 to 5 p.m. at the event and a wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the American Legion Post 96. The party, set to start at noon, saw 10,000 people attend in 2024, but Poling said he anticipates that number to increase by 50 percent. To apply to be in the parade, visit Reach Jacob Espinosa at 567-242-0399. Featured Local Savings
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05-02-2025
- General
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'Spread the Love' calling for volunteers
Feb. 4—LIMA — Aaron Poling, of Friends of Lima, came to the Lima Municipal Building on Tuesday to offer volunteers to "Spread the Love," a new program to donate meals to children in Lima. Laurie Camper, public relations director for the program run by Faith Christian Church, said the program would be a small step toward lowering the 20 percent of Lima children who are hungry. "They don't know where their next meal is coming from," she said. "So we want to provide some nice sack meals for them for after school with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, apple sauce, a drink and a cookie to help fill their tummies." City councilman Derry Glenn said since the Cheryl Allen Community Center closed down three years ago, the number of hungry children has risen in the city. "I wish I could take it down to zero every year, but it's a win-win for us to be involved with the church here to help out these kids," he said. "We ask that everyone in our community steps up. We always show our hometown pride and we need to get ready to go out and help one another in this community." The program could have all the peanut butter and jelly in the world, but Camper said it is still in need of volunteers to make sandwiches and drive vans to deliver the meals to children throughout the sixth ward. "People need to know that it's a very simple job," she said. "We have a van that's marked as the 'Spread the Love' van. You just need to be an adult driver with a good record and we will do a background check. Even if you're just a single driver, we can pair you with another to go out on delivery day to play music and hand out sandwiches to the kids." Camper said keeping kids fed, even after school, is important for the learning process. "No learning happens, no character building happens, nothing happens when they're hungry," she said. "And if they're in school or coming home from school and they're hungry, there are no more lessons they can learn unless they have a full belly. If they're not fed, they can't learn to be good, responsible young men and women who grow into responsible adults." The program will deliver meals from 4 p.m. to dark starting Friday, Feb. 7 in the sixth ward. For more information on volunteering or donating, visit Reach Jacob Espinosa at 567-242-0399. Featured Local Savings
