{"id":110861,"date":"2018-12-21T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=110861"},"modified":"2018-12-21T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:34:44","slug":"cooper-gives-750000-to-camp-lakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/12\/21\/cooper-gives-750000-to-camp-lakota\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper gives $750,000 to Camp Lakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default\"><i>VW independent\/submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"default\">OAKWOOD &#8212; On Wednesday, the Cooper Family Foundation provided a $750,000 contribution to Camp Lakota, a Boy Scout camp in Defiance that serves northwest and west central Ohio. The donation will go toward funding for a new hall at the camp.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110862\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Cooper-donation-to-Camp-Lakota-12-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"326\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Cooper Farms representatives pose at Camp Lakota with camp administrators after donating $750,000 to the camp.<\/strong> <em>photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"default\">The relationship between the Boy Scouts of America and Cooper Farms is a long-standing one. The Cooper family has eight current Eagle Scouts and three more in the process of earning the honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default\">\u00a0\u201cWe believe in scouting and we believe in tradition,\u201d said Greg Cooper. \u201cWe have three generations of Eagle Scouts in our family. We\u2019re proud to be able to provide this donation to such a great organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default\">The tradition of the Coopers supporting the scouts started with Virgil Cooper and hasn\u2019t ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default\">\u201cMy dad was very involved and very supportive of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts,\u201d said Dianne Cooper. \u201cWe just want to keep that legacy going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default\">This donation forever etches the Cooper family into the camp\u2019s history, as the new building will be named \u201cCooper Lodge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default\">Camp Lakota has been serving young people of northwest and west central Ohio since 1941. The camp covers 640 acres, including the 48-acre Lake Glengary, and is bordered on the west side by the Auglaize River. The camp houses 18 conservation-type campsites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information OAKWOOD &#8212; On Wednesday, the Cooper Family Foundation provided a $750,000 contribution to Camp Lakota, a Boy Scout camp in Defiance that serves northwest and west central Ohio. The donation will go toward funding for a new hall at the camp.\u00a0 The relationship between the Boy Scouts of America and Cooper Farms [&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-110861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:31:16","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\/110861","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=110861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}