{"id":190525,"date":"2025-03-09T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190525"},"modified":"2025-03-09T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:10:48","slug":"spotter-training-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/09\/spotter-training-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotter training class&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Paulding-County-tornado-5-7-2024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179025\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The National Weather Service Northern Indiana is hosting a series of Skywarn training sessions throughout its service area, including one in Van Wert at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged as limited seating is available. To pre-register, click <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfg4Zp_1k0rlz_2lPmaaaN9BpGCKFQgRaNJIz6Oj5qQK5dZvw\/viewform\">here<\/a>. Those wishing to become Skywarn spotters (recommended age is 14 and older) need only attend one session. The free program will last approximately two hours with a stretch break. The training is not county specific. <em>Van Wert independent file photo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service Northern Indiana is hosting a series of Skywarn training sessions throughout its service area, including one in Van Wert at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged as limited seating is available. To pre-register, click here. Those wishing to become Skywarn spotters (recommended [&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-190525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 10:05:56","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\/190525","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=190525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190526,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190525\/revisions\/190526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}