{"id":190096,"date":"2025-02-26T22:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190096"},"modified":"2025-02-26T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:44:21","slug":"ywca-scholarship-finalists-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/26\/ywca-scholarship-finalists-announced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"YWCA scholarship finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The YWCA of Van Wert County has announced the 2025 Scholarship for Young Women finalists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lakyn Bailey \u2013 Lakyn is the daughter of Leslie and Tyson Bailey, she attends Lincolnview High School.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amanda Burenga \u2013 Amanda is the daughter of Julie and Tom Burenga, she attends Van Wert High School.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Valentina Miller \u2013 Valentina is the daughter of Sarah and Dan Miller, she attends Delphos Jefferson High School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All three of these Van Wert County high school seniors display outstanding leadership and volunteerism that allow them to fulfill the mission of the YWCA. Scholarships in the amount of $800, $500 and $300 will be awarded at the YWCA\u2019s Annual Women of Achievement Scholarship Dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at Willow Bend Country Club.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/YWCA-scholarship-finalists-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190098\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Scholarship finalists are Lakyn Bailey, Amanda Burenga and Valentina Miller. <em>Photos submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are honored to support the young women in our community through the YWCA Scholarship for Young Women, helping them achieve their future goals and plans,\u201d YWCA President\/CEO, Kimberly Laudick. \u201cThis year, we had a large number of outstanding applicants, which made the selection process incredibly challenging for our board members.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the event are available for purchase by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/ywcavanwertcounty.betterworld.org\/events\/women-achievement-2025\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:khoug@ywcavanwertcounty.org\">khoug@ywcavanwertcounty.org<\/a> with any questions. The YWCA of Van Wert County is a United Way Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The YWCA of Van Wert County has announced the 2025 Scholarship for Young Women finalists: All three of these Van Wert County high school seniors display outstanding leadership and volunteerism that allow them to fulfill the mission of the YWCA. Scholarships in the amount of $800, $500 and $300 will be awarded at [&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-190096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 18:32:18","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\/190096","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=190096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190099,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190096\/revisions\/190099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}