{"id":204887,"date":"2026-04-14T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204887"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:46:16","slug":"commissioners-honor-telecommunicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/14\/commissioners-honor-telecommunicators\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners honor telecommunicators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Commissioners have issued a proclamation for Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, which is this week, April 12-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County telecommunicators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office:<\/strong> Jessica McClellan, Janis Kessler, Mallory Mansfield, Calib Cunningham, Willow Von Stetina, Hannah Turpening, and Faith Clem.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Telecommunications-Week-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204888\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Telecommunicators in Van Wert County are being honored this week. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Van Wert City Police Department:<\/strong> Deb Ebert, Gabriel Evans, Kaileigh Gentry, Kyhia Replogle, Rick Spoor, and Makayla Jackman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ohio State Highway Patrol Post 81:<\/strong> Pamela Dull, Brittany Free, Katie Klausing, Shannon Shepard, Sandra Steinbrunner, Cherie Fairburn, and Melissa Vermillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shown in the photo (front row, left to right): Faith Clem, Jessica McClellan, Janis Kessler, Calib Cunningham, and Brittany Free. Back row: Van Wert County Commissioner Thad Lichtensteiger, Van Wert County Commissioner Todd Wolfrum, Van Wert Patrol Post Commander Lt. Joseph Sisco, and Van Wert County Commissioner Stan Owens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Van Wert County Commissioners have issued a proclamation for Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, which is this week, April 12-18. Van Wert County telecommunicators: Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Office: Jessica McClellan, Janis Kessler, Mallory Mansfield, Calib Cunningham, Willow Von Stetina, Hannah Turpening, and Faith Clem. Van Wert City Police Department: Deb Ebert, Gabriel [&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-204887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:01:14","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\/204887","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=204887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204889,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204887\/revisions\/204889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}