{"id":186811,"date":"2024-11-30T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=186811"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:53:02","slug":"food-donations-net-local-fair-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/11\/30\/food-donations-net-local-fair-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Food donations net local fair $5K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fight Hunger, Stock the Trailer&#8221;\u00a0is a friendly competition that empowers young Ohio residents to combat hunger. This summer marked the fourth year of the program, which is presented by\u00a0Farm Credit Mid-America\u00a0and sponsored by\u00a0Rural 1<sup>st<\/sup>. 66 county fairs across the state collected a record-breaking 286,339 pounds of food for local food banks and the Van Wert County Fair was among the leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year, we were able to increase the total amount raised by over 25 percent while reaching a record amount of food raised,\u201d said Melanie Strait-Bok, senior vice president of agricultural lending for Farm Credit Mid-America in Ohio. &#8220;With more than a million Ohioans facing food insecurity, it has been inspiring to see our communities come together in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every participating county fair received a donation to support activities that build future agriculture leaders. Additional prize dollars were given to the top fifteen participating fairs. In total, Farm Credit Mid-America donated more than $50,000 to junior fair boards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners were determined by calculating the total weight of all donations at participating fairs throughout five regions in Ohio.<strong> <\/strong>First<strong> <\/strong>place regional winners were awarded\u00a0$5,000\u00a0in addition to the $500 donation they received for participating in the event. This year\u2019s first place winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Champaign County Fair for collecting 11,700 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guernsey County Fair for collecting 30,340 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lorain County Fair for collecting 32,580 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ross County Fair for collecting 30,140 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Van Wert County Fair for collecting 7,340 pounds of food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Second-place winners were awarded\u00a0$3,500\u00a0in addition to the $500 donation they received for participating in the event. This year\u2019s second place winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ashland County Fair for collecting 10,080 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clermont County Fair for collecting 12,455 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hartford County Fair for collecting 13,677 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Henry County Fair for collecting 4,380 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Warren County Fair for collecting 7,080 pounds of food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Third<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>place winners were awarded<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>$1,500\u00a0in addition to the $500 donation they received for participating in the event. This year\u2019s third place winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brown County Fair for collecting 10,100 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Defiance County Fair for collecting 3,043 pounds of food\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greene County Fair for collecting 5,440 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Muskingum County Fair for collecting 10,300 pounds of food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stark County Fair for collecting 8,620 pounds of food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information &#8220;Fight Hunger, Stock the Trailer&#8221;\u00a0is a friendly competition that empowers young Ohio residents to combat hunger. This summer marked the fourth year of the program, which is presented by\u00a0Farm Credit Mid-America\u00a0and sponsored by\u00a0Rural 1st. 66 county fairs across the state collected a record-breaking 286,339 pounds of food for local food banks [&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-186811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:54:39","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\/186811","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=186811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186812,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186811\/revisions\/186812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}