{"id":143413,"date":"2021-06-03T00:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=143413"},"modified":"2021-06-03T00:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:31:23","slug":"elks-announce-americanism-essay-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/06\/03\/elks-announce-americanism-essay-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks announce Americanism essay winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, announces the winners of the 2020-2021 Elks Americanism Essay Contest.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fraternal year, the theme for the contest was: \u201cHow can Patriotism be Demonstrated.\u201d Students competed in divisions, by age group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local winners, whose names were forwarded to the District level for further judging, include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division I, Fifth and Sixth Grades<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First place &#8212; Harold Smazenko, Crestview School<\/li><li>Second place &#8212; Noah Mosier, Crestview School<\/li><li>Third place &#8212; Sophia Brickner, Lincolnview School<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division II, Seventh and Eighth Grades<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First Place &#8212; Quinn Tomlinson, Crestview School<\/li><li>Second Place &#8212; Lauren Tracey, Crestview School<\/li><li>Third Place &#8212; Josie Kulwicki, Crestview School<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracey placed third in the Northwest District Division I competition, while Mosier placed first in the Northwest District Division II competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jill Evans is the lodge chairman in charge of the Lodge Americanism Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent staff and submitted information Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, announces the winners of the 2020-2021 Elks Americanism Essay Contest.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This fraternal year, the theme for the contest was: \u201cHow can Patriotism be Demonstrated.\u201d Students competed in divisions, by age group. Local winners, whose names were forwarded to the District [&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-143413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 21:11:29","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\/143413","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=143413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}