Featured events coming up in the Lima region
Christmas Tree Festival
Consumer Health: Treating COPD
COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a leading cause of disability and death in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association. More than 12.5 million people have been diagnosed with COPD, but millions more may have the disease without knowing it.
Mayo Clinic Q and A: How to avoid an ankle injury
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am in my early 50s and enjoy an active lifestyle. I recently heard reports of an increase in ankle sprains and broken ankles particularly in an older population, due in part to both activity and aging. How can I avoid these injuries in the first place?
Should older seniors risk major surgery? New research offers guidance
Nearly 1 in 7 older adults die within a year of undergoing major surgery, according to an important new study that sheds much-needed light on the risks seniors face when having invasive procedures.
Phelps bringing powerhouse vocals back to Niswonger
VAN WERT — David Phelps will be back in Van Wert to bring his brand of worship music to the Niswonger Center, just in time for the holiday season.
ONU Holiday Spectacular returns to VMCCC
LIMA — After a three-day run starting Nov. 17 at the Freed Center in Ada, Ohio Northern University’s Holiday Spectacular is bringing all the song and spectacle people have come to love back to Lima starting Friday. And it is all thanks to the deserved enthusiasm of the university and a local business.
Reminisce: 50 years of Christmas Tree Festival
It started as a way to bring Lima together in the turbulent year of 1973. Now it’s an annual holiday tradition that generations of residents couldn’t imagine living without.
Lima Public Library Book Reviews
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Living with Children: Why ‘gentle parenting’ is a cult mentality
This is the Age of the Parenting Cult, the latest iteration of which is so-called “gentle parenting.” GP is the latest attempt by America’s mental health industry to persuade moms (today’s all-too-typical dad is a mere “parenting aide”) to approach discipline such that both child behavior and child mental health problems increase, which they have, and dramatically so, since the early 1970s, when parents began taking their marching orders from psychologists and the like (Full disclosure: Yours truly is a psychologist).
Jerry Zezima: How sweet it was
It’s a good thing I’m not a business magnate because I couldn’t sell refrigerators in Death Valley. If I could, I’d be a refrigerator magnate.
