{"id":106818,"date":"2018-09-08T02:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=106818"},"modified":"2018-09-08T02:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:05:18","slug":"thatcher-seeks-county-treasurers-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/09\/08\/thatcher-seeks-county-treasurers-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Thatcher seeking county treasurer&#8217;s job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106819\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bonnie-Thatcher-headshot-9-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Bonnie Thatcher<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Van Wert County Democratic Central Committee voted unanimously this past Wednesday to appoint Bonnie (Kreischer) Thatcher, a lifelong resident of Van Wert and a local math teacher for more than 37 years, as its candidate to fill the unexpired term of retired Van Wert County Treasurer Beverly Fuerst.<\/p>\n<p>Thatcher is a graduate of Van Wert High School, and received her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in education from The University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to more than three decades of service to Van Wert City Schools, Thatcher held the offices of president, vice president, and secretary of the Van Wert Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Thatcher also served as a trustee on the Van Wert Area Schools Insurance Group (VWASIG). All of these various experiences have prepared her well for a position in the county treasurer\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Thatcher is placing an emphasis on fiscal responsibility and trust: The residents of Van Wert trusted her for 37 years with the education of their children, and they can trust her with their tax dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert County Democratic Central Committee voted unanimously this past Wednesday to appoint Bonnie (Kreischer) Thatcher, a lifelong resident of Van Wert and a local math teacher for more than 37 years, as its candidate to fill the unexpired term of retired Van Wert County Treasurer Beverly Fuerst. Thatcher is a [&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-106818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:16:33","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\/106818","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=106818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}