{"id":106213,"date":"2018-08-24T07:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=106213"},"modified":"2018-08-24T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:34:10","slug":"jr-fair-still-projects-auction-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/08\/24\/jr-fair-still-projects-auction-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Jr. Fair &#8216;still projects&#8217; auction scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Area residents and business people are invited to support outstanding 2018 still projects created by Junior Fair 4-H and FFA members that will be for sale during Fair Week.<\/p>\n<p>The Junior Fair Board and 4-H Council is hosting a silent and live auction for those projects during fair week. The auction serves to educate club\/chapter members about the process of marketing their project\/product to the public.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/VW-County-Fair-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" \/>The bidders, those who want artwork for their homes or businesses, hand-crafted furniture, baked goods for their table, hand-sewn projects, etc., bid on the project item or items of interest. Winning bidders pay 4-H\/FFA club\/chapter members, who then invests their wages in their next project, college fund, or other venture that interests them.<\/p>\n<p>Silent auction bids will be taken all week long in the Junior Fair Building, starting Wednesday, August 29. The final live auction will take place at 2 p.m. Monday, September 3, at the Junior Fair Building. The highest silent auction bid will become the starting live auction bid.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals and businesses interested in participating should arrive at the Junior Fair Building on the Fairgrounds just before 2 p.m. on Monday, September 3. Bidders are asked to register and will be provided a number to be used during the auction. Checks can be made payable to the Van Wert County Junior Fair Board.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Heather Gottke at the Ohio State University Extension office at 419.238.1214 or by email at Gottke.4@osu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Area residents and business people are invited to support outstanding 2018 still projects created by Junior Fair 4-H and FFA members that will be for sale during Fair Week. The Junior Fair Board and 4-H Council is hosting a silent and live auction for those projects during fair week. The auction serves [&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-106213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 05:18:37","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\/106213","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=106213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}