Van Wert County Foundation Trustee Mike Gearhart (right) awards grants totaling $31,600 to First Presbyterian Church Pastor Hal Shafer. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLocal schools and non-profit agencies were among those who received grants ranging from $1,000 to a $50,000 grant awarded to Van Wert County Hospital to help pay for its 2010 Emergency Room project.<\/p>\n
Other organizations receiving grants include the following:<\/p>\n
Brumback Library received $3,900 from the Gary L. Tomczak Fund.<\/p>\n
Van Wert County Council on Aging received $20,000 from the Julia M. and Lawrence \u201cBert\u201d Strete Fund.<\/p>\n
Crestview Local Schools Music Department received $1,500 from the Gaylord and Eliza Saltzgaber Fund.<\/p>\n
First Presbyterian Church was granted $4,100 from the Leslie Endowment Fund and $27,500 from the James P. Johnson Fund.<\/p>\n
Lincolnview Local Schools Music Department received $1,500 from the Gaylord and Eliza Saltzgaber Fund.<\/p>\n
Ohio State University Extension received $8,600 from the Black Inc. Fund to pay for a 4-H intern, and another $1,000 for a Van Wert signage project from the David L. Brumback and Vernon H. Evans funds.<\/p>\n
Vantage Career Center was awarded $37,500 from the Rose R. and Ellis C. Lampke Fund by Frieda Rothacker.<\/p>\n
Van Wert City Schools Music Department was awarded $8,700 from the Leslie Endowment Fund and $500 for choir robes from the Charles Lincoln Ireland Fund.<\/p>\n
The Van Wert County Agricultural Society (fair board) was awarded $10,000 from the James A. and Minnie C. Kesler Fund to pay for Commercial Building improvements.<\/p>\n
Van Wert County Hospital was given $50,000 from the Julia M. and Lawrence Strete, James A. and Minnie C. Kesler and William J. Flickinger funds for the ER project.<\/p>\n
The Salvation Army of Van Wert County received $5,000 from the Ilo D and Carlos E. Miller Fund.<\/p>\n
Van Wert Special Olympics was awarded $3,000 from the Oscar J. Scaer Fund.<\/p>\n
Van Wert Soil and Water Conservation District was given $5,000 from the Julia M. and Lawrence Bert Strete Fund.<\/p>\n
Van Wert Youth Baseball was awarded $4,000 from the Harold B. and Dortha F. Cully Fund.<\/p>\n
The YMCA of Van Wert County was given $25,000 from the Alice B. Andersen Fund.<\/p>\n
The YWCA of Van Wert County was awarded $25,000 from the Associated Charities, John E. Alspach, Walter A. Hofmann, Clyde S. Fergus and Oscar and Norman C. Feigert funds (click here<\/strong><\/a> for more photos).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor The Van Wert County Foundation Board of Trustees announced more than $240,000 in community grants approved during its December meeting. Local schools and non-profit agencies were among those who received grants ranging from $1,000 to a $50,000 grant awarded to Van Wert County Hospital to help pay for its 2010 Emergency Room […]<\/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-47554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:29:48","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\/47554","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=47554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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