{"id":32156,"date":"2012-11-30T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=32156"},"modified":"2012-11-30T06:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:38:21","slug":"unauthorized-electric-solicitors-in-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/11\/30\/unauthorized-electric-solicitors-in-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Unauthorized electric solicitors in area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert County area is again seeing unauthorized door-to-door soliciting in connection with electrical programs.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Mayor Don Farmer said Thursday that some of those soliciting have been charged with soliciting without a permit, noting that a city permit is needed to perform door-to-door solicitations in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor stressed that city residents not show the solicitors their electric bill, since someone could take information off the bill &#8212; especially their name, address and 17-digit identification number &#8212; and then change their energy provider without their permission. Residents should also ask anyone soliciting to produce their permit allowing them to go door-to-door in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone being accosted by unauthorized solicitation should call the Van Wert Police Department at 419.238.2462.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent The Van Wert County area is again seeing unauthorized door-to-door soliciting in connection with electrical programs. Van Wert Mayor Don Farmer said Thursday that some of those soliciting have been charged with soliciting without a permit, noting that a city permit is needed to perform door-to-door solicitations in the city. The mayor [&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-32156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 03:13:51","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\/32156","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=32156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}