{"id":170942,"date":"2023-10-03T03:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=170942"},"modified":"2023-10-03T03:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:46:23","slug":"govt-students-hosting-mayoral-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/govt-students-hosting-mayoral-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t students hosting mayoral forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert High School\u2019s American Government students are inviting residents of the City of Van Wert to join them in the upcoming mayoral candidate forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center\u2019s First Federal Lecture Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was created to assist the public in gaining information by hearing from the candidates themselves regarding local issues and concerns ahead of the November 7 general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three mayoral candidates, Linda Agler-Evans, Frederick Fisher, and Kenneth Markward, will each have 1-2 minutes to respond to the questions presented, rotating who answers first throughout the event. The candidates will not be given the opportunity for rebuttals during this forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a chance for public questions and concerns to be voiced. Van Wert residents are encouraged to submit their questions in advance to Van Wert High School government teacher Jordan Dettrow at <a href=\"mailto:j_dettrow@vwcs.net\">j_dettrow@vwcs.net<\/a>. All questions should be submitted by 3 p.m. Friday, October 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will facilitate the forum from start to finish, from introducing the candidates to moderating and timing the event. Community members are encouraged to attend a meet-and-greet with the candidates following the forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Van Wert High School\u2019s American Government students are inviting residents of the City of Van Wert to join them in the upcoming mayoral candidate forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center\u2019s First Federal Lecture Hall. The event was created to assist the public in gaining information by [&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-170942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 18:33:26","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\/170942","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=170942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170943,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170942\/revisions\/170943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}