{"id":102453,"date":"2018-05-10T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102453"},"modified":"2018-05-10T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:30:26","slug":"elks-name-americanism-essay-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/10\/elks-name-americanism-essay-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks name Americanism Essay winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has announced the winners of the 2017-2018 Elks Americanism Essay Contest. This fraternal year, the theme for the contest was \u201cWhy Our Veterans are America\u2019s Heroes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Students competed in divisions, by age group. The local winners, which were forwarded to the district for further judging, were:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102454\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Elks-Americanism-Contest-winners-5-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"577\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Shown are (front row, from the left) Division I winners Hayden Buuck, Luke Stouffer, and Kyle Stoller; (back row) Division II winners Chloe Beining, Sophia Saylor, and Ellie Vining<\/strong>. <em>Elks photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Division I, Grades 5-6 &#8212; Hayden Buuck, Crestview, first place; Luke Stouffer, Wayne Trace\/Payne School, second place; and Kyle Stoller, Wayne Trace\/Grover Hill School, third place.<\/p>\n<p>Division II, Grades 7-8 &#8212; Chloe Beining, Wayne Trace, first place; Sophia Saylor, Crestview, second place; and Ellie Vining, Crestview, third place.<\/p>\n<p>Vining placed third in the Northwest District competition. Stouffer placed first in the Northwest District competition and also placed first in the state competition.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197 congratulates all of its winners and lodge members thank all of the students, teachers, and schools for their participation in this year\u2019s essay contest.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Evans was the lodge Americanism Committee chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has announced the winners of the 2017-2018 Elks Americanism Essay Contest. This fraternal year, the theme for the contest was \u201cWhy Our Veterans are America\u2019s Heroes\u201d. Students competed in divisions, by age group. The local winners, which were forwarded to the district [&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-102453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 20:06:49","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\/102453","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=102453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}