{"id":207006,"date":"2026-06-16T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207006"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:40:04","slug":"local-salvation-army-in-need-of-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/16\/local-salvation-army-in-need-of-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Salvation Army in need of help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Deborah Weigner\/special to the VW independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Salvation Army&#8217;s mission is to meet human need without discrimination.&nbsp;Hunger is a very important issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With rising costs of gasoline and utilities, working families have to choose between going to work, paying bills and feeding the family well.&nbsp;Older citizens are also having a hard time having food in their homes.The Salvation Army of Van Wert served over 200 families (650 people) in the month of May and served 1,350 Wednesday meals in May.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We strive to have good balanced food in our pantry and our meals.&nbsp;As new people request the food pantry and come for a free lunch, many times our supply of food is short.&nbsp;At this time of the year finances are very limited but expenses are high. Funding cuts have been an issue that makes the budget harder to move around funding to buy food.&nbsp;The requests for food is not going away but more neighbors are requesting food.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today The Salvation Army is requesting a call for financial gifts to help our programs continue.&nbsp;Some neighbors choose to help with food items such as cereal, Hamburger Helper, pasta, spaghetti sauce and instant potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, financial gifts are a great way for us to purchase food for the pantry or feeding program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your donation helps feed or neighbors in need in Van Wert County. Financial donations may be sent to the Salvation Army, PO Box 791, Van Wert, Ohio, 45891.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for considering this request and may God bless you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Deborah Weigner is the commanding officer of the Salvation Army in Van Wert. <\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deborah Weigner\/special to the VW independent The Salvation Army&#8217;s mission is to meet human need without discrimination.&nbsp;Hunger is a very important issue.&nbsp; With rising costs of gasoline and utilities, working families have to choose between going to work, paying bills and feeding the family well.&nbsp;Older citizens are also having a hard time having food [&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-207006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 01:14:28","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\/207006","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=207006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207007,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207006\/revisions\/207007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}