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VAN WERT — Wassenberg Art Center has been approved for a $175,000 grant from the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission.
The art center will use the funds to create a green festival space behind the art building where the former parking lot was.
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LIMA — The Lima News 21st annual Amateur Photo Competition winners were recently announced.
Today, the Flowers and Abstract categories appear.

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The Lima News welcomes photos from the region that are shared from our readers. Here are a few that were recently submitted.
To share photos with us, please email high-resolution images to info@limanews.com. Include as much information as you can about the old photos you’re sharing.

CLEVELAND — A northeast Ohio zoo says its baby giraffe has a name.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo says the African Masai giraffe born Aug. 6 will be called Zawadi, meaning “gift” in his native country.
The newborn has gained more than 50 pounds since birth and grown about a foot.
The zoo’s giraffe-naming contest raised more than $2,300 in support of the Future for Wildlife Fund. The fund helps protect endangered giraffe populations by addressing poaching and snaring and supporting wildlife translocation and research.

LIMA — Two local credit unions have joined 65 other branch offices in Ohio to rally their members and local communities to provide supplies for people affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Led by Sun Federal Credit Union in Maumee, 15 Ohio credit unions are partnering with Impact With Hope to host local “bucket brigades.”

BLUFFTON — A ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony was held for The Lions Way Parkview Path, another section of the Bluffton Pathway Project, Tuesday afternoon at the new location.
The Lions Way Parkview Path is located off Kibler Street, through the new Parkview Subdivision. The new 8-foot-wide asphalt path exists on Main Street across from Dairy Freeze and Jackson Street, said Dick Ramseyer, chairman of the Bluffton Pathway Board and president of the Bluffton Lions Foundation.

LIMA —The Allen County commissioners approved a resolution to amend Allen County Healthier Buckeye Council Community Navigation Sub-grant agreements between the Allen County Family and Children First Council, Allen County commissioners and community organizations including United Way and Allen County Job and Family Services, during a meeting Tuesday.
“Raising the contracts for three of our grantees and lowering for one,” said Amber Martin, coordinator for Children and Family First.

LIMA — St. Rita’s Health Partners and its parent company, Mercy Health, have decided to shut down its two health centers at Elida and Bath schools, citing a low volume of patients.
The Mercy Health-Elida School Health Center will close its doors for good Monday. The Mercy Health-Bath Local School Health Center shut down Friday. The health centers were the only two medical clinics Mercy Health had established within local school systems.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a man who disappeared Monday while swimming in Lake Erie near Cleveland.
A woman called the joint rescue coordination center in Cleveland at about 7:30 p.m. Monday to report that her father, of Bratenahl (BRAT’-ih-nahl), appeared to be drowning. She said he had been swimming in the water near a boat when he was hit by a large wave and didn’t resurface. Authorities said he wasn’t wearing a life jacket.

The NFL needs to put a stop to players protesting during the national anthem. Their protest is in support of Black Lives Matter, who hate our United States law enforcement.
Black Lives Matter is a hate group just like the KKK. The followers of Black Lives Matter have assassinated seven black cops within the last 16 months. If some of the NFL players do the Nazi salute during the national anthem, will that also be considered freedom of speech?
Glen Lewis, Lima