{"id":101015,"date":"2018-04-10T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=101015"},"modified":"2018-04-10T08:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:03:53","slug":"yw-lists-women-of-achievement-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/04\/10\/yw-lists-women-of-achievement-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"YW lists Women of Achievement finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The YWCA of Van Wert County will host its second annual Women of Achievement Scholarship Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 3, at the YWCA. The winners of the Women of Achievement awards will be announced that evening during the event.<\/p>\n<p>The YWCA is pleased to announce this year\u2019s nominees in the following eight categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional Leadership &#8212; Paula Stabler and Jacqueline Welch<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy &#8212; Veronica Cuevas<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s Empowerment &#8212; Rita Hurless<\/li>\n<li>Racial Justice &#8212; Miah Katalenas and Heidi Kline<\/li>\n<li>Volunteerism &#8212; Julie Burenga, Margaret Miller, and Linda Stanley<\/li>\n<li>Youth Development &#8212; Teresa Shaffer and Mary Jo Wilhelm<\/li>\n<li>Civic Dedication &#8212; BarB Thompson (posthumous)<\/li>\n<li>Overcoming Adversity &#8211; Tisha Fast and Jan White<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all, so it is an absolute honor to be able to recognize these females who carry out our mission in their daily lives,\u201d said Kelly Houg, YWCA advocacy coordinator. \u201cWe are looking forward to a wonderful night celebrating our nominees and their commitment to the Van Wert community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event are available for purchase at the YWCA for $25, which includes a full dinner. General operating hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; and Friday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The YWCA is partially funded by the Van Wert County Foundation and is a United Way agency. For more information about the event, contact Houg at 419.238.6639 or khoug@ywcavanwertcounty.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The YWCA of Van Wert County will host its second annual Women of Achievement Scholarship Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 3, at the YWCA. The winners of the Women of Achievement awards will be announced that evening during the event. The YWCA is pleased to announce this year\u2019s nominees in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 20:40:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}