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LIMA — The American Red Cross will give a free Cedar Fair Parks ticket to people who donate blood or platelets at an upcoming blood drive in Lima.

LIMA — Free, hands-on training sessions will be available this summer throughout Ohio for teen drivers to practice crash avoidance techniques and gain the experience necessary to become safer drivers.

When it comes to trusting your fellow humans, it’s a far different world than the one in which I grew up.

LIMA — Cable Road Alliance Church, 2264 N. Cable Road, Lima, will host Vacation Bible School from 9 to 11:30 a.m. June 10 through 14.

KENTON — Dr. Carol Oates will be the featured speaker at a meeting of the Northwest Ohio Woodland Association scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 8 at 22319 Hardin County Township Road 140, Kenton.

LIMA — With the end of the school year quickly approaching, law enforcement agencies throughout Allen County offer a reminder that the following juvenile curfews will be in effect in Allen County, the city of Lima, the villages of Elida and Lafayette and American, Bath, Marion, Perry and Shawnee townships.

LIMA — Rhodes State College is partnering with local entities to train the next generation in technology. On Tuesday, the school dedicated the new Ar-Hale Family Foundation Advanced Manufacturing Learning Center. According to a recent press release, the donation from the AR-Hale Family Foundation will provide students with the ability to utilize different robots in preparation for their careers.

The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly over eastern Ohio until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment there last year.

WAPAKONETA — The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is now a part of the newly released Ohio Air and Space Trail.

LIMA — The NOW Marketing Group Inc. is hosting its Social Media Week Lima conference this summer.