New banners hung in downtown Van Wert

Just in time for the Peony Festival and ArtRageous on Main events this week, new banners are springing up on the light poles on Main and Washington streets in downtown Van Wert.

The Young Adult Focus Group, with help from Main Street Van Wert, raised funds last fall to purchase new American flags and street banners for the light poles through downtown Van Wert. The new banners highlight recognizable landmarks and attractions throughout the community, along with the website for the Convention & Visitor’s Bureau. The bottom of each banner shows the name of the business or organization that donated funds to have these new banners and flags purchased.

Main Street Van Wert and the Young Adult Focus Group would like to thank the following for displaying their civic pride by donating to support this project: Mengerink’s Source for Sports, Laudick’s Jewelry, Bee Gee Realty, Touches of Time Antiques, Hearth & Home, P&R Medical, Cooper Farms, Home Health Care Solutions, Shutterbugg Studio, Essential Solutions, Next, Rhoades Insurance, Alspaugh-Gearhart Funeral Home, Stahl Stoller Myer Insurance Center, Ink Again, Van Wert County Commissioners, Impressions Salon, Dr. Eversman DDS, Chic Extreme, First Financial Bank, Johnson & Carcione Attorneys at Law, Balyeat’s Coffee Shop, Wilkinson Printing, Gibby’s Photo, Northwestern Mutual, Collins Fine Foods, Main Street Ice Cream Parlor, Wetzel Motorcycle Club, St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic School, Fettig’s Flowers, First Bank of Berne, and the Veterans Service Commission.