{"id":40537,"date":"2013-07-09T06:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=40537"},"modified":"2013-07-09T06:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:41:44","slug":"vw-elks-donate-to-wren-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/09\/vw-elks-donate-to-wren-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Elks donate to Wren Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert Elks news<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, recently donated $750 to the Wren Volunteer Fire Department. The money was used by the department towards the purchase of a hose washer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40538\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Elks-give-to-Wren-FD-7-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40538 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Elks-give-to-Wren-FD-7-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shown are Van Wert Elks Lodge Community Service Grant Chairman Michael C. Stanley with Wren Fire Chief Jackie Brandt and that department\u2019s new hose washer. (Elks photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The funding was distributed by the Ohio Elks Association in the form of a Community Service grant. The Ohio Elks Association receives monies each year from the Elks National Foundation, a perpetual trust fund established many years ago by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Contributions to the foundation are made each year by more than 1 million Elks and their families and friends from more than 2,000 Elks lodges across the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>To date, through the Community Service Grants, Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197 has distributed more than $29,278 back to Van Wert County to assist the city, county and villages.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert Elks Lodge is proud to be able to assist the Wren Fire Department as it protects the citizens of the village and surrounding area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Elks news Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, recently donated $750 to the Wren Volunteer Fire Department. The money was used by the department towards the purchase of a hose washer. The funding was distributed by the Ohio Elks Association in the form of a Community Service grant. The [&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-40537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 22:31:37","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\/40537","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=40537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}