{"id":10181,"date":"2011-07-02T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2011-07-02T00:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T05:05:49","slug":"kleman-leaves-county-engineers-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/07\/02\/kleman-leaves-county-engineers-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"Kleman leaves county engineer&#8217;s dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert County Engineer Superintendent George Kleman retired from a 35-year career with the County Engineering Department on June 30.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10182 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Wendel-with-George-Kleman-7-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert County Engineer Kyle Wendel (left) presents retiring Superintendent George Kleman with a plaque commemorating his 35 years of service to the County Engineering Department. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kleman began working for the department in 1976 as a part-time employee under County Engineer Paul Gardner.\u00a0 After working his way up through the ranks to road foreman, he was promoted to superintendent in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, he has performed his duties well, with great rapport with co-workers, trustees, and the general public,\u201d said County Engineer Kyle Wendel, who added that his leadership and experience will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>A number of county employees, both past and present, held a party honoring Kleman on June 30.\u00a0 At that time, Kleman was presented with gifts from employees, as well as a custom made plaque in the shape of Van Wert County.\u00a0 The plaque was hand crafted by Rob Wilhelm, who was recently promoted to take over as superintendent to replace Kleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert County Engineer Superintendent George Kleman retired from a 35-year career with the County Engineering Department on June 30. Kleman began working for the department in 1976 as a part-time employee under County Engineer Paul Gardner.\u00a0 After working his way up through the ranks to road foreman, he was promoted to superintendent in 2001. [&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-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 01:41:40","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\/10181","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=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}