{"id":46842,"date":"2013-12-24T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=46842"},"modified":"2013-12-24T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:53:52","slug":"elks-sharing-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/12\/24\/elks-sharing-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Elks sharing tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elks-Christmas-Sharing-Tree-12-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46843\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Elks Christmas Sharing Tree 12-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Elks-Christmas-Sharing-Tree-12-2013.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has again this year adopted over 30 children in the Van Wert area, ages infant to 3 years of age, to help make their Christmas a little brighter.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tags are placed on the lodge Christmas Sharing Tree, which contains items needed for the kids. This year the children of the Help Me Grow program were the recipients of Elks\u2019 generosity. Lodge members take tags from the tree, buy and wrap the items and bring them back to the Lodge. Members of the lodge\u2019s Christmas Caring Committee then deliver the packages before their Christmas party begins.\u00a0\u00a0 This has been an Elks project for several years and lodge members look forward to the Sharing Tree being put up in the Lodge. By participating in this project, Van Wert Elks are able to show the community that Elks Care \u2013 Elks Share. Shown are wrapped presents waiting to be delivered<\/b>. <i>(Elks photo)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has again this year adopted over 30 children in the Van Wert area, ages infant to 3 years of age, to help make their Christmas a little brighter.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tags are placed on the lodge Christmas Sharing Tree, which contains items needed for the kids. This [&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-46842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 09:12:33","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\/46842","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=46842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}