{"id":204365,"date":"2026-03-31T20:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204365"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:35:50","slug":"elks-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/31\/elks-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks award&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elks-Officer-of-the-Year-2025-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204366\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge No. 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks recently honored their \u201cOfficer of the Year\u201d for the 2025-2026 Lodge year. Selected as the \u201cOfficer of the Year\u201d was Valerianne Mullins, Lodge Lecturing Knight. In addition to her lecturing knight duties, she served as the children\u2019s Christmas party chairman as well as promoting other events. Mullins (pictured above with Lodge Exalted Ruler John Ream) received a framed certificate from the Grand Lodge, which was signed by the Grand Exalted Ruler (National President) Bryan R. Klatt. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge No. 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks recently honored their \u201cOfficer of the Year\u201d for the 2025-2026 Lodge year. Selected as the \u201cOfficer of the Year\u201d was Valerianne Mullins, Lodge Lecturing Knight. In addition to her lecturing knight duties, she served as the children\u2019s Christmas party chairman as well as [&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-204365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 03:53:37","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\/204365","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=204365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204367,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204365\/revisions\/204367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}