{"id":12260,"date":"2011-08-19T02:21:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2011-08-19T02:21:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:21:52","slug":"2011-community-days-events-highlighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/08\/19\/2011-community-days-events-highlighted\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Community Days events highlighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent\/<\/strong><em>Community Days info<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; The 2011 edition of Convoy Community Days will be celebrated September 23-25 at the village\u2019s Edgewood Park.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12261 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Conovy-Community-Days-2008-Guest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Convoy Mayor Brad Guest smiles during the 2008 Community Days Parade. (VW independent file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A large number of events for all ages are being planned for the weekend festival. Some of the highlights include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gibson\u2019s Backyard BBQ chicken or rib dinners, lawn mower drag races, Lions Club Bingo and more. Registration will be Friday, September 16,\u00a0at the park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Food will be served all day in the community building, featuring Gibson\u2019s Backyard BBQ Pulled Pork. There will also be a men\u2019s softball tournament, kiddy tractor pull and other kids\u2019 activities, Mark\u2019s Animal Show, Basket Bingo, the annual Community Days Parade with the theme this year of \u201cConvoy Preschool Celebrating 25 Years\u201d, a martial arts demo, juggler Craig Muhlenkamp, a kickball tournament, a truck pull, Fifties and Sixties dance with \u201cCrossroads\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coed softball tournament, 5K run, sandwiches and a dessert bar, Preach\u2019n at the Park, a cornhole tournament, and a reverse raffle.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, registration forms and rules and regulations, visit the Convoy village website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villageofconvoy.com\">www.villageofconvoy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wanting to help with this weekend event or who has suggestions for added events, there will be a planning meeting on Tuesday August 23, at 7 p.m. at the Convoy Municipal Building, or contact Brent Jones at <a href=\"mailto:Brent@storeandhaul.com\">Brent@storeandhaul.com<\/a> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"mailto:villageofconvoy@bright.net\">villageofconvoy@bright.net<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/Community Days info CONVOY &#8212; The 2011 edition of Convoy Community Days will be celebrated September 23-25 at the village\u2019s Edgewood Park. A large number of events for all ages are being planned for the weekend festival. Some of the highlights include: Friday Gibson\u2019s Backyard BBQ chicken or rib dinners, lawn mower drag [&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-12260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 12:21:56","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\/12260","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=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}