{"id":41919,"date":"2013-08-15T06:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T11:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=41919"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:00:15","slug":"deb-compton-new-vwcs-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/08\/15\/deb-compton-new-vwcs-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Deb Compton new VWCS board member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Van Wert independent staff report<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41920\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VW-school-board-mtg-8-14-13-Compton.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41920 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"New Van Wert City Board of Education member Deb Compton listens during a special board meeting held Wednesday at the S.F. Goedde Building. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VW-school-board-mtg-8-14-13-Compton.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Van Wert City Board of Education member Deb Compton listens during a special board meeting held Wednesday at the S.F. Goedde Building. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Van Wert City Board of Education met in special session on Wednesday morning at the S.F. Goedde Building and approved Deb Compton as a new board member to replace Jessica Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss had to resign when her family relocated to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Compton attended the meeting and said she was pleased to be taking a seat on the board of education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that Van Wert High School prepared me well for college and I want to give back to the school and community and think this would be a great fit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Compton, who is director of physical rehabilitation for Therapy Solutions, which provides physical therapy services for Van Wert County Hospital, is a 1996 graduate of Van Wert High School who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in physical therapy from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo and a doctorate in physical therapy from Des Moines University in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently working on an MBA from the University of Tiffin.<\/p>\n<p>Compton has a son, LJ, who is 2, while her husband, Luke, works at Vantage Career Center in Van Wert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent staff report The Van Wert City Board of Education met in special session on Wednesday morning at the S.F. Goedde Building and approved Deb Compton as a new board member to replace Jessica Weiss. Weiss had to resign when her family relocated to Oklahoma. Compton attended the meeting and said she was [&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-41919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 02:25:49","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\/41919","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=41919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}