{"id":200760,"date":"2025-12-19T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200760"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:46:29","slug":"toss-a-toy-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/19\/toss-a-toy-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Toss A Toy donation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Toss-A-Toy-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200761\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Rotary Club recently donated toys along with approximately\u00a0$500 in cash\u00a0in support of the annual\u00a0Toss a Toy\u00a0initiative, a longstanding community effort that benefits children throughout\u00a0Van Wert County. Toss a Toy was started a number of years ago by\u00a0Eric McCracken, owner of\u00a0Lee Kinstle GM Sales &amp; Service, and has grown into a meaningful local tradition focused on ensuring children in need have a brighter holiday season. Rotary\u2019s contribution continues the club\u2019s commitment to \u201cService Above Self\u201d and supporting programs that directly impact local families. Pictured with the donation are Van Wert Rotarians\u00a0Ashley Bultemier, Bailey Carder, Gavin Cross, Ryan McCracken, Andy Czajkowski, Gary Taylor, and Seth Baker. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Van Wert Rotary Club recently donated toys along with approximately\u00a0$500 in cash\u00a0in support of the annual\u00a0Toss a Toy\u00a0initiative, a longstanding community effort that benefits children throughout\u00a0Van Wert County. Toss a Toy was started a number of years ago by\u00a0Eric McCracken, owner of\u00a0Lee Kinstle GM Sales &amp; Service, and has grown into a meaningful local [&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-200760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:15:45","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\/200760","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=200760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200762,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200760\/revisions\/200762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}