{"id":211407,"date":"2026-10-21T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211407"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:22:43","slug":"elks-donation-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/21\/elks-donation-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks donation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Elks-Convoy-FD-donation-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211408\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, recently donated $943 to Convoy Fire &amp; EMS. The department used the money to purchase two sets of Milwaukee battery powered shears for cutting windshields at accident scenes and a Milwaukee battery powered fan for smoke removal and ventilation at structure fires. The money was distributed by the Ohio Elks Association in the form of a Community Service Grant. To date, thru the Community Service Grants, Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197 has distributed $38,467.53 back into Van Wert County to assist the city, county and villages. Pictured above is Convoy Fire Chief Rob Miller and Lodge Community Service Grant Chairman Michael C. Stanley. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, recently donated $943 to Convoy Fire &amp; EMS. The department used the money to purchase two sets of Milwaukee battery powered shears for cutting windshields at accident scenes and a Milwaukee battery powered fan for smoke removal and ventilation at structure fires. The money was [&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-211407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-28 23:48:20","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\/211407","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=211407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211409,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211407\/revisions\/211409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}