{"id":167172,"date":"2023-06-16T03:51:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=167172"},"modified":"2023-06-16T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T02:58:21","slug":"optimist-club-offers-after-prom-activities-for-3-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/06\/16\/optimist-club-offers-after-prom-activities-for-3-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimist Club offers After Prom activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the help of local sponsors, the Optimist Club of Van Wert recently hosted three successful After Prom events for Van Wert, Crestview, and Lincolnview High School students. All of the activities took place at Olympic Lanes in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert High School\u2019s After Prom took place from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. April 22. Crestview\u2019s after prom was the following Saturday, from 11 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. April 29, and Lincolnview High School\u2019s after prom took place from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. May 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Braxton-Sherrick-6-15-2023-e1686970675289.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167173\"\/><figcaption>Lincolnview&#8217;s Braxton Sherrick shows off the prizes she won during After Prom activities. Photo submitted<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the After Prom event at each school is to provide local high school students with a safe place to go after prom to play games and engage in other safe recreational activities. This year\u2019s After Prom events featured bowling, bingo, scrabble, \u201cScattergories,\u201d trivia, and many other fun activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any youth that participated in the games during the night got entered into drawings to win a variety of prizes including but not limited to: a mini-fridge, a TV, a laptop, a bowling package, a jewelry basket, a picnic package, and many other prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Optimist Club of Van Wert thanked a number of area businesses for their generous donations to the event this year: Arby\u2019s, Burger King, Dairy Queen, the Elks Lodge, First Bank of Berne, First Federal of Van Wert, Laudick\u2019s Jewelery, McDonald\u2019s, Pizza Hut, Straley Realty, Taco Bell, Thatcher Insurance, Tisha Fast \u2013 State Farm Insurance, United Way, Van Wert Federal Savings Bank, and Wendy\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Optimist Club of Van Wert is a volunteer organization whose mission is to better the lives of the youth in our community through activities and outreach events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/optimistvw.com\">www.optimistvw.com <\/a>or the Optimist Club of Van Wert on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information With the help of local sponsors, the Optimist Club of Van Wert recently hosted three successful After Prom events for Van Wert, Crestview, and Lincolnview High School students. All of the activities took place at Olympic Lanes in Van Wert. Van Wert High School\u2019s After Prom took place from 11 p.m. [&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-167172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 04:47:21","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\/167172","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=167172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167214,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167172\/revisions\/167214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}