{"id":22987,"date":"2012-04-11T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2012-04-11T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:26:29","slug":"elks-donate-to-convoy-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/04\/11\/elks-donate-to-convoy-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks donate to Convoy Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, recently donated $750 to the Convoy Volunteer Fire Department. The money was used by the fire department towards the purchase of a light bar for its new grass truck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22988\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Elks-donate-to-Convoy-FD-4-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22988 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Elks-donate-to-Convoy-FD-4-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lodge Exalted Ruler Fred Fisher (left) with Convoy Fire Chief Don Wilson. (Elks photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ohio Elks Association distributes the funds in the form of a Community Service Grant. The Ohio Elks Association receives monies each year from the Elks National Foundation, a perpetual trust fund established many years ago by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Contributions to the Foundation are made each year by more than 1 million Elks and their families and friends from more than 2,000 Elks lodges across the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>To date, through Community Service Grants, Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197 has distributed over $27,000 back into Van Wert County to assist the city, county and villages.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge is proud to be able to assist the Convoy Volunteer Fire Department with this important project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, recently donated $750 to the Convoy Volunteer Fire Department. The money was used by the fire department towards the purchase of a light bar for its new grass truck. The Ohio Elks Association distributes the funds in the form of a Community Service Grant. The [&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-22987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:06:11","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\/22987","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=22987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}