{"id":50333,"date":"2014-04-04T06:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=50333"},"modified":"2014-04-04T06:37:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:37:35","slug":"chp-holds-annual-beacon-of-hope-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/04\/04\/chp-holds-annual-beacon-of-hope-event\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP holds annual Beacon of Hope event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Wert CHP information<\/i><\/p>\n

Community Health Professionals\u2019 16th annual Hospice \u201cBeacon of Hope\u201d dinner and auction was held Thursday evening at Willow Bend Country Club, and a capacity crowd of more than 200 was on hand to support the local non-profit hospice program.<\/p>\n

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Chelle Gehres, widow of Glenn Gehres, speaks during Community Health Professionals’ Beacon of Hope dinner and auction on Thursday. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The family of Glenn D. Gehres thanked the CHP staff for its care and support throughout Glenn\u2019s illness and eventual passing at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center at age 54.<\/p>\n

Chelle Gehres, Glenn\u2019s widow, presented a lighthouse to be displayed at the hospice center to symbolize the hope, comfort and support of hospice.<\/p>\n

The auction, conducted by Bob Gamble and emceed by Rick Small, raised thousands of dollars for CHP\u2019s patient care fund. A 20-gauge shotgun and pheasant hunt package auctioned off in memory of Gehres, an avid hunter, brought $2,000. Local hunting groups, former co-workers and friends of Gehres were in attendance, including D.D. Strickler, who was asked to auction off the last item.<\/p>\n

Custom Assembly of Haviland, Elmco Engineering and Moose Lodge 1320 in Van Wert were recognized as Friends of Hospice for their continued support of the dinner\/auction event.<\/p>\n

The $500 raffle winner was Monica Davis.<\/p>\n

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Elmco Engineering and Custom Assembly were both named “Friends of Hospice” for their support in the past year. (submitted information)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert CHP information Community Health Professionals\u2019 16th annual Hospice \u201cBeacon of Hope\u201d dinner and auction was held Thursday evening at Willow Bend Country Club, and a capacity crowd of more than 200 was on hand to support the local non-profit hospice program. The family of Glenn D. Gehres thanked the CHP staff for its […]<\/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-50333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 16:06:10","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\/50333","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=50333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}