Reminisce: Lima celebrates Emancipation Day
It was, the Lima Morning Star & Republican-Gazette wrote, a “holiday of colored residents at Hover Park given over to fun, frolic and feasting with good music and large attendance.”
City Club to host dinner and fashion show for charity
LIMA — A unique event is coming to the City Club this Saturday and it is all for a good cause.
Lima Public Library Book Reviews
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On Nutrition: More on probiotics
A column on probiotics brought this response from Don S. in Arizona: “One of my docs thinks supplements are important, the other thinks they are worthless. A continuing mystery until I read your quiz. My question: How do I know my (probiotic) supplements are alive? The capsules are kept at room temp for up to 4 weeks and the predelivery environment is an unknown.”
Review: ‘Martyr!’ is a dazzling, thrilling debut novel about identity and loss
It’s more than passing strange that in two months a pair of virtuosic novels have pivoted off similar events: commercial aircraft shot down amid heightened political tensions. Ed Park’s “Same Bed Different Dreams” re-creates the Soviet Union’s 1983 targeting of Korean KAL 007; and now Kaveh Akbar’s dazzling “Martyr!” evokes the 1988 tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, blown out of the sky by missiles fired from the USS Vincennes, which mistook the jet for a military fighter. A poet and editor at the Nation, Akbar taps his impeccable ear to enrich this fiction début.
‘Everyone can be a naturalist,’ says man who preserved 153,000 acres
PITTSBURGH — Charles Bier was the kid with snakes in his pockets.
Walk like a penguin: Keeping your winter balance
When winter storms hit, good balance can prevent falls and injuries — ranging from broken arms, legs or hips to back injuries and concussions.
Mayo Clinic Minute: Graves’ disease — when the thyroid is overactive
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder that triggers the thyroid gland to produce more thyroid hormones than the body needs. It’s the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid.
Arts and eats: How to browse through Epcot’s international festival
ORLANDO, Fla. — Epcot International Festival of the Arts, the first theme park special event of 2024, has launched. And there are notes to be made. It’s a brief fest by Walt Disney World standards, running daily through Feb. 19, so act fast. The lineup includes hands-on artistic activities, Broadway-level performances, interaction with artists, culinary arts and shopping.
Ex-etiquette: Be skeptical of what your child tells you about what’s going on at...
Q: My child returned to my home after his weekend with his mother and while he was getting ready for bed, he mentioned that his mother didn’t come home last night. He’s only 14. What should I do? What’s good ex-etiquette?
