{"id":38597,"date":"2013-05-15T06:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=38597"},"modified":"2013-05-15T06:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:53:31","slug":"council-on-aging-chooses-senior-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/05\/15\/council-on-aging-chooses-senior-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Council on Aging chooses ‘Senior Stars’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Council on Aging news<\/em><\/p>\n

Instead of choosing a senior king and queen, as it has done in years past, the Van Wert County Council on Aging honored 11 \u201csenior stars\u201d this year during its annual Senior Citizens\u2019 Day Banquet held at the Council\u2019s Senior Center on Fox Road.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert County Council on Aging Executive Director Kevin Matthews (left) congratulates Larry Webb on being selected as one of 11 first-ever "senior stars" during Tuesday's Senior Citizens' Day Banquet at the Senior Center as Allie Kuhlman, Council on Aging Board president, looks on behind them. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those selected as first-ever Senior Stars included community volunteer and Van Wert City Council President Gary Corcoran, former Marsh director and community volunteer Ron Bagley, longtime YWCA travel program director Jean Owens, food pantry and Community Health Professionals volunteers Ilo and Lloyd Marvin, community volunteer and First Ward Councilman John Marshall, former Van Wert City and Vantage school board member and longtime Niswonger Performing Arts Center greeter and volunteer Ken Mengerink, Senior Center volunteers Bill Kuhlman and Helen Whitmore and local historian and longtime Lincoln Highway volunteer Larry Webb.<\/p>\n

Council on Aging Executive Director Kevin Matthews lauded each recipient, while C of A Board President Allie Kuhlman handed out medals honoring each recipient for their selection as a senior star.<\/p>\n

Prior to the announcement, senior citizens and their guests sat down to a banquet catered by the local Bob Evans restaurant and were entertained by \u201cone-man band\u201d Alan Seibert following the meal and Senior Stars presentation.<\/p>\n

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First-ever Van Wert County Council on Aging "senior stars", shown here with Council on Aging Executive Director Kevin Matthews (first row, right), include (front row, from the left) Bill Kuhlman, Mac Talton, Lloyd and Ilo Marvin, Jean Owens; (back row) Ken Mengerink, Gary Corcoran, John Marshall, Larry Webb and Ron Bagley. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Council on Aging news Instead of choosing a senior king and queen, as it has done in years past, the Van Wert County Council on Aging honored 11 \u201csenior stars\u201d this year during its annual Senior Citizens\u2019 Day Banquet held at the Council\u2019s Senior Center on Fox Road. Those selected as first-ever Senior Stars included […]<\/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-38597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:50:24","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\/38597","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=38597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}