{"id":187625,"date":"2024-12-20T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=187625"},"modified":"2024-12-20T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:40:10","slug":"sheriff-presents-annual-deputy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/12\/20\/sheriff-presents-annual-deputy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff presents annual deputy awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach recently held his office\u2019s annual awards banquet at the Elks Lodge in Van Wert.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff Riggenbach believes it is important to acknowledge and recognize staff for exceptional performance throughout the year.\u00a0Staff are nominated by fellow staff members for each award, which is then reviewed by an awards committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several awards available to be issued each year including Office Citation, Certificate of Merit, Award of Valor, Life Saving Award, Commendation Award, Safe Driving Award, Civilian Citation, Certificate of Appreciation, and Military Service Award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/VWCO-Sheriffs-deputy-awards-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187626\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pictured clockwise from top left: Amanda Overholt, Willow Von Stetina, Tyler Mox and Skylar Smallwood. <em>VWCO Sheriff&#8217;s Office photos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The top awards this year went to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civilian Employee of the Year \u2013 Amanda Overholt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communications Officer of the Year \u2013 Willow Von Stetina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corrections Officer of the Year \u2013 Skylar Smallwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy of the Year \u2013 Tyler Mox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff Riggenbach congratulated everyone who received an award and thanked the entire staff for a job well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach recently held his office\u2019s annual awards banquet at the Elks Lodge in Van Wert.\u00a0\u00a0 Sheriff Riggenbach believes it is important to acknowledge and recognize staff for exceptional performance throughout the year.\u00a0Staff are nominated by fellow staff members for each award, which is then reviewed by an [&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-187625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 03:29:25","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\/187625","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=187625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187627,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187625\/revisions\/187627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}