{"id":182954,"date":"2024-08-26T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=182954"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:02:50","slug":"donations-sought-for-fire-victims-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/08\/26\/donations-sought-for-fire-victims-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations sought for fire victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, August 23, the Van Wert County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was dispatched to assist the\u00a0Middle Point\u00a0Fire Department at a house fire (see photo below). CERT is working to raise support for the family. After meeting with the family it is determined that clothing and monetary donations are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please include the following case number with any donation so that CERT can ensure it is distributed to the correct family: Case #8968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adult male: pants: XL; sweat pants; shirts: 3XL; footwear: large\/wide (slippers)<br>Adult Female: pants: L; sweat pants; shirts: L; sweat pants; footwear: 8-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donations for the fire victims should be taken to the following locations based on the contents:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Clothing Items:<\/em><br>Trinity Global Methodist Church<br>220 S. Walnut St.<br>Van Wert<br>Business hours: Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Larger Appliances and Furniture:<\/em><br>Trinity Friends Church<br>605 N. Franklin St.<br>Van Wert<br>Business hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.<br><em>*Some appliances may not be needed, in the event that your donation cannot be accepted, donation, you may be asked to return to pick up the items as storage space is low.<\/em><br>\u00a0<br>Donations will be collected until\u00a0Friday, August 30.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Monetary donations can be dropped off or sent to Van Wert County Foundation\/CERT located at 138 E. Main St.,Van Wert. Include the Case #8968\u00a0in the memo.\u00a0Donations may also be made online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vanwertcountyfoundation.org\/\">vanwertcountyfoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0by clicking \u2018Donate\u2019 and selecting the \u2018Van Wert EMA\/CERT Fund&#8217;\u00a0and include the Case #8968\u00a0in the donation note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information On Friday, August 23, the Van Wert County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was dispatched to assist the\u00a0Middle Point\u00a0Fire Department at a house fire (see photo below). CERT is working to raise support for the family. After meeting with the family it is determined that clothing and monetary donations are needed. Please include [&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-182954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 12:10:23","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\/182954","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=182954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182955,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182954\/revisions\/182955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}