{"id":46867,"date":"2013-12-26T04:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=46867"},"modified":"2013-12-26T04:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T09:40:29","slug":"retiring-convoy-businesswoman-to-be-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/12\/26\/retiring-convoy-businesswoman-to-be-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Open house set for area businesswoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>CONVOY \u2013 An open house has been scheduled for this Friday, December 27, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. to honor Convoy hair stylist Diane Manz.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46868\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Diane-Manz-at-The-Sophisti-Cut-12-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46868 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" alt=\"Longtime Convoy hair stylist and business owner Diane Manz in her shop. (photo submitted)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Diane-Manz-at-The-Sophisti-Cut-12-2013.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Convoy hair stylist and business owner Diane Manz in her shop. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manz has been a hair stylist for more than four decades and has owned and operated The Sophisti-Cut on West Tully Street in Convoy for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to having a village business for many years, Manz has also been very much involved in the Convoy community and has been a member of the Convoy Business Association for a number of years, currently serving as acting president.<\/p>\n<p>She developed the \u201cLunch with the Easter Bunny\u201d program and Convoy and has worked to keep it going for more than a decade. She has also participated in the village\u2019s Customer Appreciation Days and has provided homemade cinnamon rolls, cookies, candy and mints to community residents.<\/p>\n<p>She has also contributed food items to fundraising bake sales, dinners and parties over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Manz also became involved in Convoy Community Days in 1999 during the 125th celebration of the village\u2019s founding and has been a member of the Community Days Committee ever since, supporting the group with both her time and talents.<\/p>\n<p>The Sophisti-Cut has also been an avid supporter of Crestview Local Schools\u2019 academic and athletic programs over the years and Manz has served on many boards and committees in the Convoy community.<\/p>\n<p>The community is asked to turn out to honor Manz for her service both as a Convoy business owner and community supporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information CONVOY \u2013 An open house has been scheduled for this Friday, December 27, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. to honor Convoy hair stylist Diane Manz. Manz has been a hair stylist for more than four decades and has owned and operated The Sophisti-Cut on West Tully Street in Convoy for more than 30 years. [&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-46867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 20:41:48","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\/46867","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=46867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}