Lifestyle

Your nose is front and center on your face. It serves many functions, including humidifying and cleaning the air you breathe; delivering tone to your voice; and providing a sense of smell, which is important for taste, identification and memory. Love or loathe it, your nose is also a key part of your visual identity.

WAYNESFIELD —The family of the bride announces the engagement of Belinda Boop and R. Gary Hesseling, both of Waynesfield.

LIMA — The 43rd annual St. Gerard Festival will return this weekend for the second straight year after two years off due to the pandemic. Organizer Kelly Stolly thinks people are going to be ready to get out and enjoy the celebration and good weather just as they were in 2022.

LIMA — Downtown Lima’s First Fridays will return for the summer starting at 5 p.m. Friday with the Dog Days of Summer.

Two and a half weeks before marching bands, a stunt pilot and “Diablo the Human Torch” entertained some 50,000 people at the dedication of Schoonover Park, the man most responsible for making it all possible quietly tried out the park’s recently completed swimming pool.

Open Mic Day

A look back at past covers of The Lima News from May 31: 10 YEARS AGO 50 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO

OXON HILL, Md. — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care.

Beneath a gray sky at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Raytown, Missouri, Father Gary Menard gathered a group of high school students around him and told them that everyone dies twice.

Some windows, called “thermal windows,” help keep a house warm in winter and cool in summer. With this simple tool, you can tell whether a window is thermal or not.