{"id":32907,"date":"2012-12-20T06:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=32907"},"modified":"2012-12-20T06:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T11:24:19","slug":"vantage-helps-provides-kids-with-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/12\/20\/vantage-helps-provides-kids-with-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantage helps provides kids with toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vantage information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With no Toys for Tots operating in Van Wert County this year, Lee Kinstle GM Sales &amp; Service teamed up with the local Salvation Army to help collect toys for area children in need. To meet this challenge, they enlisted the help of the four area schools &#8212; Van Wert, Vantage, Crestview, and Lincolnview &#8212; to help make this Christmas a happy one for all children.<\/p>\n<p>Vantage students and staff raised over $2,000 for the cause by holding two \u201cjeans days\u201d. Amy Grothouse, Junior Cosmetology and VCC teacher, spearheaded the effort. On December 12, her VCC students took a shopping trip to Walmart to purchase toys &#8212; 573 of them!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of my students told me they really wanted to help with this project because, when they were little, their Christmas toys came from Toys for Tots,\u201d said Grothouse.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Kinstle GM Sales &amp; Service donated a $500 Pick \u2018N\u2019 Save gift card in Vantage\u2019s name to the Van Wert Salvation Army Food Bank to help fill the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Eric McCracken, and his team were very happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vantage-students-with-Toss-A-Toy-truck-12-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32908\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vantage-students-with-Toss-A-Toy-truck-12-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vantage VCC students (who did the shopping) and Welding students (who donated the most money) are pictured with the \u2018Toss A Toy\u2019 truck.\u00a0 Also in the front row are Brent Wright, Welding instructor, and Amy Grothouse.<\/strong> <em>(Vantage photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vantage information With no Toys for Tots operating in Van Wert County this year, Lee Kinstle GM Sales &amp; Service teamed up with the local Salvation Army to help collect toys for area children in need. To meet this challenge, they enlisted the help of the four area schools &#8212; Van Wert, Vantage, Crestview, and [&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-32907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:55:46","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\/32907","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=32907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}