{"id":171366,"date":"2023-10-14T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=171366"},"modified":"2023-10-14T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T05:17:49","slug":"questions-sought-for-mayoral-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/10\/14\/questions-sought-for-mayoral-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions sought for mayoral forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline is approaching to submit questions for an upcoming mayoral candidate forum in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert High School\u2019s American Government students will host the forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert residents are encouraged to submit 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> no later than 3 p.m. Friday, October 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three mayoral candidates, incumbent Ken Markward and challengers Linda Agler-Evans and Fred Fisher, will each have 1-2 minutes to respond to the questions presented, rotating who answers first throughout the event. The candidates, who are on the November 7 general election ballot, will not be given the opportunity for rebuttals during this forum.<\/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>VW independent staff The deadline is approaching to submit questions for an upcoming mayoral candidate forum in Van Wert. Van Wert High School\u2019s American Government students will host the forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. Van Wert residents are encouraged to submit questions in advance to Van Wert [&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-171366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 09:38:54","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\/171366","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=171366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171398,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171366\/revisions\/171398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}