{"id":29459,"date":"2012-09-28T07:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=29459"},"modified":"2012-09-28T07:41:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:41:18","slug":"fun-united-way-fundraising-event-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/09\/28\/fun-united-way-fundraising-event-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun United Way fundraising event set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>United Way information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Come and join the fun on Wednesday, October 3, when the presidents of three local financial institutions get taped to the wall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29460\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Duct-taped-to-the-wall-9-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29460 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Duct-taped-to-the-wall-9-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three local bank presidents will look something like this after a United Way fundraising event planned for October. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The action will occur at Citizens National Bank, First Federal Savings &amp; Loan, and Van Wert Federal Savings Bank.\u00a0For $1 a foot, area residents can duct-tape the bank presidents to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a fundraiser for the United Way, as the banks are the 2012 campaign pacesetter,\u201d said R.J. Coleman, this year\u2019s United Way campaign chair. \u201cThe banks have been doing different activities for the past couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coleman noted that the banks have been having popcorn sales, hot dog and bake sale, raffles, and penny wars during that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe banks have really stepped up to the plate,\u201d Coleman added. \u201cThey are having a lot of fun, and the community will be the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The taping starts at 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. for Brian Renner at First Federal Savings &amp; Loan, while Gary Clay at Van Wert Federal will be taped from 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.\u00a0 Citizens National Bank\u2019s Pat Ryan will be taped, beginning at 11:30 a.m., with no ending time set.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman asked area residents to come out and support these fun events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Way information Come and join the fun on Wednesday, October 3, when the presidents of three local financial institutions get taped to the wall. The action will occur at Citizens National Bank, First Federal Savings &amp; Loan, and Van Wert Federal Savings Bank.\u00a0For $1 a foot, area residents can duct-tape the bank presidents to [&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-29459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 12:07:00","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\/29459","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=29459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}