Angie Burkholder points out her husband, SFC Michael Burkholder, to her son Keith, 15 months old, as her husband walks off the bus outside the Veterans Memorial Civic Center Friday afternoon just before the welcome home ceremony for the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Angie and Keith hadn’t seen Michael since July.
Ava, 2, cries out and reaches for her mother as she and her brother Jordan, 3, sit on Santa’s lap Saturday afternoon at the Lima Mall. Santa arrived at the mall - making his first appearance this season - by horse-drawn carriage.
YWCA supporters hold signs during a meeting held by the YWCA board of directors in response to the board’s recent decision to close the aquatic center.
A Unity Elementary fourth grader, with help from a Lima Senior High Performance JumpStart student, picks items off a table to assemble Christmas shoe boxes filled with toys and toiletries to send to international hospitals, orphanages, shelters and children in impoverished neighborhoods.