{"id":40729,"date":"2013-07-15T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=40729"},"modified":"2013-07-15T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:24:32","slug":"when-pigs-fly-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/15\/when-pigs-fly-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;When Pigs Fly&#8217; sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/First-Federal-sponsors-When-Pigs-Fly-7-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40730\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/First-Federal-sponsors-When-Pigs-Fly-7-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Federal of Van Wert, represented by (from the left) Jessica Hardesty and Suzie Grimes,\u00a0is\u00a0sponsoring a &#8220;When Pigs Fly&#8221; event for this year&#8217;s Van Wert Rib Fest.\u00a0The Rib Fest was established seven\u00a0years ago as a fundraiser to benefit the Van Wert Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, represented by Larry Lee (at right).\u00a0In addition, this fundraising event will help support many United Way area agencies, represented by United Way Executive Director Deb Russell (second from right).\u00a0 At approximately 2:30\u00a0p.m. Saturday, August 3, the United Way will drop little plastic piggies from overhead.\u00a0Each pig relates to a corresponding raffle ticket selling for $10 each. Closest pig to the &#8220;pen&#8221; wins $650, second closest $350, and the pig farthest away wins $250.\u00a0Tickets are available at the United Way, First Federal offices at 679 Fox Road, or from any United Way board member.\u00a0 For more information call the United Way at 419.238.6689 or CVB at 419.238.9378. <\/strong><em>(photo submitted)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Federal of Van Wert, represented by (from the left) Jessica Hardesty and Suzie Grimes,\u00a0is\u00a0sponsoring a &#8220;When Pigs Fly&#8221; event for this year&#8217;s Van Wert Rib Fest.\u00a0The Rib Fest was established seven\u00a0years ago as a fundraiser to benefit the Van Wert Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, represented by Larry Lee (at right).\u00a0In addition, this fundraising [&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-40729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:55:17","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\/40729","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=40729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}