{"id":194608,"date":"2025-07-07T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=194608"},"modified":"2025-07-07T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:34:22","slug":"labor-day-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/labor-day-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day 5K&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LifeWise-5k-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194609\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The annual LifeWise 5K for Allen County is back again with more to offer than ever before. This family friendly event is a major fundraiser for eight area LifeWise Academies \u2013 Elida, Spencerville, Allen East, Bath, Columbus Grove, Shawnee and Delphos and Perry. This year\u2019s event features a 5K race for all ages and a 1K Fun Run for ages 12 and under. The event, which will be held in Elida, is on Labor Day, Monday, September 1. The Fun Run will start at 8:30 a.m. followed by the 5K at 9 a.m.The entry fee is $24 for ages 17 and above and $14 for those 16 and under. The 1K run is only $5. (Registration prices rise August 4.) Participants are encouraged to select a &#8220;team&#8221; and start a fundraising page. To register, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/actslifewise5k.com\">actslifewise5k.com<\/a>. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual LifeWise 5K for Allen County is back again with more to offer than ever before. This family friendly event is a major fundraiser for eight area LifeWise Academies \u2013 Elida, Spencerville, Allen East, Bath, Columbus Grove, Shawnee and Delphos and Perry. This year\u2019s event features a 5K race for all ages and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 06:24:33","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\/194608","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=194608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194610,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194608\/revisions\/194610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}