{"id":17244,"date":"2011-12-05T05:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2011-12-05T05:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:34:38","slug":"groups-provide-merry-christmas-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/12\/05\/groups-provide-merry-christmas-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups provide merry Christmas to kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17245 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Wetzel-MC-hands-out-stuffed-animals-12-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here, Addyson Long receives a stuffed animal from members of the Wetzel Motorcycle Club. (photos submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Members of Wetzel Motorcycle Club and Region 3 of ABATE (American Bikers Aimed Towards Education) were able to raise enough money this year to make the Christmas of more than 100 county children a merry one.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the two groups raised more than $7,000 for their yearly toy buy and purchased gifts for 139 children living in Van Wert County.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Wetzel Motorcycle Club members handed out more than 200 stuffed animals to children as they left Walmart on Saturday during the club\u2019s shopping event.<\/p>\n<p>Wetzel Motorcycle Club will also complete its donations for the year during an event to be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, December 14, at American Legion Post 178 in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s donations for the year will exceed $25,000.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17246\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17246 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Motorcycle-groups-shop-at-Christmas-12-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"362\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Wetzel Motorcycle Club shops to provide Christmas toys for needy Van Wert County children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Wetzel Motorcycle Club and Region 3 of ABATE (American Bikers Aimed Towards Education) were able to raise enough money this year to make the Christmas of more than 100 county children a merry one. This year, the two groups raised more than $7,000 for their yearly toy buy and purchased gifts for 139 [&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-17244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:10:41","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\/17244","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=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}