{"id":28384,"date":"2012-09-01T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=28384"},"modified":"2012-09-01T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T11:22:24","slug":"united-way-names-2012-pacesetters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/09\/01\/united-way-names-2012-pacesetters\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way names 2012 Pacesetters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>United Way information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an old saying that people need to \u201cfollow the money\u201d to find out a motive for a crime. For the United Way of Van Wert County, the slogan was changed to \u201cgo to the money\u201d when it came to selecting a pacesetter for its 90th fundraising campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the 90th United Way campaign I am proud to announce that several local banks will lead the way for 2012,\u201d said Campaign Chair RJ Coleman. \u201cWe have been planning and brainstorming over the past few weeks (and) the banks were eager to participate, which is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will be some kind of activity going on at each financial institution involved, beginning September 10. Pacesetter institutions include Citizens National Bank, Van Wert Federal Savings Bank, First Bank of Berne, First Financial Bank, First Federal Savings &amp; Loan, US Bank and Three Rivers Federal Credit Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenny wars, different contests, employee and customer participation will make this really fun,\u201d Coleman noted. \u201cI am grateful and think this will be a fun time with what is being planned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United Way campaign chair added that customers should ask what participating financial institutions have going on in conjunction with the campaign when customers do their banking business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/United-Way-Pacesetters-8-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28385\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/United-Way-Pacesetters-8-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shown with 2012 United Way Campaign Chair RJ Coleman of Central Insurance Company (center) are (from the left) Lisa Lawson of Citizens National Bank, Mark Schumm of Van Wert Federal Savings Bank, Rob Gamble of First Bank of Berne, Denise Frey of First Financial Bank, Suzie Grimes of First Federal Savings &amp; Loan, Craig Bell of US Bank and Jessie Harmon of Citizens National Bank.\u00a0 Unavailable for the picture was a representative of Three Rivers Federal Credit Union.<\/strong> <em>(United Way photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Way information There\u2019s an old saying that people need to \u201cfollow the money\u201d to find out a motive for a crime. For the United Way of Van Wert County, the slogan was changed to \u201cgo to the money\u201d when it came to selecting a pacesetter for its 90th fundraising campaign. \u201cFor the 90th United [&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-28384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 13:13:49","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\/28384","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=28384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}