{"id":193890,"date":"2025-06-15T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193890"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:44:52","slug":"no-independence-day-parade-in-van-wert-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/06\/15\/no-independence-day-parade-in-van-wert-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No July 4 parade in Van Wert this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a lot of people, the Fourth of July holiday means family gatherings, cookouts, fireworks and in some years, a short work week and long weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the July 4 holiday in Van Wert will be missing one thing \u2013 an Independence Day parade along Main St. through downtown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/July-4-2022-parade-II-e1750124659638.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155729\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There will be no Independence Day parade in Van Wert this year. <em>VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In previous years, the Independence Day parade was organized, set up and run by American Legion Post 178, but that won\u2019t be the case for this year\u2019s holiday, which happens to fall on a Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe American Legion is not doing a parade this year,\u201d a Post 178 official said in an email response inquiring about the parade.&nbsp; \u201cUnfortunately we don&#8217;t have enough help to do it. We are sorry for this inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there won\u2019t be an Independence Day parade this year, two other popular and free events will go on as usual. The Van Wert County Historical Society\u2019s Holiday at Home will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 4, at the Historical Society, 602. N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will feature music, vendors and kids activities, face painting by the Church on the Horizon, balloon animals and fliers, and drone demonstrations. All museum buildings will be open for exploring and museum trustees will be selling Sycamore ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, VFW Auxiliary Post 5803 will be serving shredded chicken sandwiches, coney dogs, chips, water and pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Area Community Concert Band, under the direction of Richard Sherrick is scheduled to perform at 12 p.m. that day, followed by music by Scott Turner at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Things will get started bright and early on July 4 with the Annual Firecracker Bike Tour, which will begin at Jubilee Park. The event will be held rain or shine and registration will start at 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Van Wert\u2019s annual fireworks display, provided by the Van Wert County Foundation, will begin at 10 p.m. July 4, at Van Wert High School on Ohio 118. Those attending should not bring fireworks, sparklers or alcohol onto school property.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor For a lot of people, the Fourth of July holiday means family gatherings, cookouts, fireworks and in some years, a short work week and long weekend. This year, the July 4 holiday in Van Wert will be missing one thing \u2013 an Independence Day parade along Main St. through downtown.&nbsp; In previous [&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-193890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 13:14:56","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\/193890","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=193890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193955,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193890\/revisions\/193955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}