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Faculty Recital

LIMA — Local band Prudence performed at the Pickles Blues Weekend at Old City Prime’s Upper Lounge last year. This year, the college band made of Shawnee High School graduates McCartney Robinson, Austin Lewis and Dylan Felter hopes to keep the good vibes that they established previously.

VAN WERT — Classic pop-rock group Air Supply will bring the Lost in Love Experience to Van Wert’s Niswonger Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Willie D. Thompson was about 6 years old in 1946 when her family arrived in Lima from the small town of Cruger in the heart of Mississippi to join her grandfather, who, disenchanted with life as a sharecropper in the South, had come north to work at Ohio Steel.

FICTION

Before bed the other night, Reagan and I were cuddling in her bed, gabbing about our weekend. Since it had warmed up a bit, she had the pleasure of all the outside shenanigans that she has been fond of since – well – since I would take her outside as a toddler.

Choosing a fresh paint color for a dull living room can be tough, but it doesn’t have to be. According to the pros, picking the best living room paint color can even be achieved in a few simple steps.

My wife and I were enjoying an evening out in one of our favorite restaurants when a family of three — mother, father, girl of perhaps 4 — were shown to a table next to ours. Immediately, the parents began asking the little one where she wanted to sit. They both stood while she went about trying each chair until she finally settled on one. Well, not really, because as soon as everyone sat, she wanted to move, so she and her father exchanged seats. The entire process took several minutes.

For those aspiring to eat mainly “clean ingredients,” a little chemistry knowledge is often useful for deciphering packaged food labels.