{"id":120746,"date":"2019-07-27T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=120746"},"modified":"2019-07-27T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:36:28","slug":"council-on-aging-to-offer-1-day-bus-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/07\/27\/council-on-aging-to-offer-1-day-bus-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Council on Aging to offer 1-day bus trips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last several years, the Van Wert County Council on Aging (COA) has had many requests to resume offering one-day bus trips.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After some consideration and help from its volunteer group, the COA has decided to offer a day trip on Tuesday, September 24.&nbsp;The trip will be to the Holmes County area of Ohio, and will begin with a visit to the Smucker\u2019s factory in Orrville.&nbsp;After the Smucker\u2019s tour, the bus will then take attendees to the P. Graham Dunn Factory Store in Dalton.&nbsp; P. Graham Dunn, which was started in a chicken coop in 1976, designs and creates unique carved and laser-created items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/YWCA-Holiday-Home-Tour-2012-Council-on-Aging.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31559\"\/><figcaption><strong>Van Wert County Council on Aging building on Fox Road.<\/strong> <em>VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Dunn tour, the trip will stop for lunch at Dutch Kitchen, where participants will be served an Amish-style meal.&nbsp;Dutch Kitchen also offers a large bakery, with a number of items for sale.&nbsp;After a hearty meal, the trip will end with a visit to Lehman\u2019s Hardware, also in Dalton.&nbsp;Lehman\u2019s started as a small hardware store serving the Amish community and has grown to be one of the largest hardware stores in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost for the trip is $89 per person, which includes travel costs, lunch, and all tips.&nbsp;It is recommended that participants bring a bag for goodies they receive at each stop.&nbsp;It is anticipated that the bus will fill up very quickly, so spots can only be held with payment.&nbsp;The COA will begin accepting payment Thursday, August 1, with all 50 available seats likely filled by August 24.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COA is also planning a bus trip to Frankenmuth, Michigan, on Friday, December 13. Cost of that trip will also be $89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information regarding the Holmes County or Frankenmuth trips, call the COA at 419.238.5011 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:travel@coavw.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"travel@coavw.org (opens in a new tab)\">travel@coavw.org<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Over the last several years, the Van Wert County Council on Aging (COA) has had many requests to resume offering one-day bus trips.&nbsp;&nbsp; After some consideration and help from its volunteer group, the COA has decided to offer a day trip on Tuesday, September 24.&nbsp;The trip will be to the Holmes County [&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-120746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 19:36:06","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\/120746","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=120746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}