{"id":25026,"date":"2012-06-01T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=25026"},"modified":"2012-06-01T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:30:21","slug":"new-banners-hung-in-downtown-van-wert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/06\/01\/new-banners-hung-in-downtown-van-wert\/","title":{"rendered":"New banners hung in downtown Van Wert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the Peony Festival and ArtRageous on Main events this week, new banners are springing up on the light poles on Main and Washington streets in downtown Van Wert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25027\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/New-downtown-banners-5-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25027 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/New-downtown-banners-5-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the new banners now hanging in the downtown area. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Young Adult Focus Group, with help from Main Street Van Wert, raised funds last fall to purchase new American flags and street banners for the light poles through downtown Van Wert. The new banners highlight recognizable landmarks and attractions throughout the community, along with the website for the Convention &amp; Visitor\u2019s Bureau. The bottom of each banner shows the name of the business or organization that donated funds to have these new banners and flags purchased.<\/p>\n<p>Main Street Van Wert and the Young Adult Focus Group would like to thank the following for displaying their civic pride by donating to support this project: Mengerink\u2019s Source for Sports, Laudick\u2019s Jewelry, Bee Gee Realty, Touches of Time Antiques, Hearth &amp; Home, P&amp;R Medical, Cooper Farms, Home Health Care Solutions, Shutterbugg Studio, Essential Solutions, Next, Rhoades Insurance, Alspaugh-Gearhart Funeral Home, Stahl Stoller Myer Insurance Center, Ink Again, Van Wert County Commissioners, Impressions Salon, Dr. Eversman DDS, Chic Extreme, First Financial Bank, Johnson &amp; Carcione Attorneys at Law, Balyeat\u2019s Coffee Shop, Wilkinson Printing, Gibby\u2019s Photo, Northwestern Mutual, Collins Fine Foods, Main Street Ice Cream Parlor, Wetzel Motorcycle Club, St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic School, Fettig\u2019s Flowers, First Bank of Berne, and the Veterans Service Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the Peony Festival and ArtRageous on Main events this week, new banners are springing up on the light poles on Main and Washington streets in downtown Van Wert. The Young Adult Focus Group, with help from Main Street Van Wert, raised funds last fall to purchase new American flags and street [&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-25026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 08:24:59","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\/25026","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=25026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}