{"id":145547,"date":"2021-09-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=145547"},"modified":"2021-09-01T23:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T04:57:34","slug":"patriots-announce-freedom-fest-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/patriots-announce-freedom-fest-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots announce Freedom Fest activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heart Land Patriots\u2019 third annual Freedom Fest will be held in Fountain Park on Saturday, September 11.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Festivities for the family-friendly event will begin with the American Legion Post 178 Color Guard presenting the and Sheila Chilcote-Collins singing \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d&nbsp;Following \u201cThe Pledge of Allegiance,\u201d a local pastor will give the Invocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Patriots will remember 9\/11 and celebrate the unity people felt on 9\/12 as America came together to defend itself.&nbsp; Patriotic music will be played until the arrival of the featured speaker, Pat Miller, a conservative patriotic Christian who has a daily radio show on Fort Wayne, Indiana, radio station WOWO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be several lunch choices available from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Games for the children will start at 1 p.m., including yard darts, corn hole, bean bag toss, and Frisbee toss.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While those activities are underway, the band Blind Date will play hits from the 1950s to the \u201890s.&nbsp;During band breaks, there will be a K-9 demonstration, State Representative Craig Riedel will speak, and several local organizations will have tables set up with displays.&nbsp; There will also be raffle drawings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent staff and submitted information The Heart Land Patriots\u2019 third annual Freedom Fest will be held in Fountain Park on Saturday, September 11.&nbsp; Festivities for the family-friendly event will begin with the American Legion Post 178 Color Guard presenting the and Sheila Chilcote-Collins singing \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d&nbsp;Following \u201cThe Pledge of Allegiance,\u201d a local pastor will [&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-145547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 20:15:49","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\/145547","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=145547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}