{"id":14073,"date":"2011-09-22T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=14073"},"modified":"2011-09-22T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T01:13:57","slug":"big-bucks-for-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/09\/22\/big-bucks-for-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Big bucks for baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Roach<br \/>\n<em>The Van Wert Independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The First Bank of Berne presented a $20,000.00 check to the Van Wert Youth Baseball group Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 The donation will be used to build a new<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14074\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=14074\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/First-Bank-of-Berne-check-pres-sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a> youth baseball facility at Jubilee Park.\u00a0 Making the presentation were Kent Liechty, President of First Bank of Berne, and Rob Gamble, Van Wert branch Manager, to Eric McCracken, President of Van Wert Youth Baseball.\u00a0 McCracken said the total cost of the new facility was $55,000.00 and this donation allows them to move forward with the project.\u00a0 Plans call for ground breaking at Jubilee Park on Oct. 1<sup>st<\/sup> with completion in early July.\u00a0 McCracken said the new baseball facility with be used by over 600 youngsters each year in a four county area.<\/p>\n<p>The First Bank of Berne will receive naming rights to the baseball facility.\u00a0 Rob Gamble said the bank gives back a percentage of their profits every year to the communities they serve.\u00a0 He added that this project was one they felt deserved their involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Roach The Van Wert Independent The First Bank of Berne presented a $20,000.00 check to the Van Wert Youth Baseball group Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 The donation will be used to build a new youth baseball facility at Jubilee Park.\u00a0 Making the presentation were Kent Liechty, President of First Bank of Berne, and Rob Gamble, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 16:52:40","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\/14073","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}