{"id":161247,"date":"2022-12-20T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=161247"},"modified":"2022-12-20T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:09:21","slug":"vwpd-holds-first-ever-appreciation-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/12\/20\/vwpd-holds-first-ever-appreciation-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"VWPD holds first ever appreciation dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department recently held its first annual appreciation for employees of the VWPD. Employees were recognized for five or more years of service, with Sgt. Kurt Conn and Dispatcher Rick Spoor having 30+ years of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A peer chosen award survey was put out prior to the dinner for employees to vote on \u201cTeam Player of the Year,\u201d \u201cDispatcher and Officer of the Year Award,\u201d \u201cDispatcher and Officer Leadership Award,\u201d \u201cDispatcher and Officer Character Award,\u201d \u201cDispatcher and Officer Mentorship Award,\u201d and \u201cThe Best Beard Award,\u201d in honor of \u201cNo-Shave November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/VWPD-dinner-12-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161248\"\/><figcaption>Members of the Van Wert Police Department recently gathered for the first annual appreciation dinner. <em>Photos by Bob Barnes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Award winners were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Player of the Year: Officer Elijah Wortman<br>Officer of the year and Officer Mentorship Award: Officer Brandi Dershem<br>Officer Leadership Award: Officer Kurt Conn<br>Officer Character Award: Officer Cory Reindel<br>Best Beard Award: Officer Shane Stabler<br>Dispatcher Rick Spoor (pictured below with Chief Doug Weigle) took all the awards for the dispatcher categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Chief-Weigle-and-Dispatcher-Spoor-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161249\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/VWPD-group-photo-12-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161250\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The Van Wert Police Department recently held its first annual appreciation for employees of the VWPD. Employees were recognized for five or more years of service, with Sgt. Kurt Conn and Dispatcher Rick Spoor having 30+ years of service. A peer chosen award survey was put out prior to the dinner [&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-161247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 22:57:17","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\/161247","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=161247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161266,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161247\/revisions\/161266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}