{"id":5108,"date":"2011-03-23T01:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T06:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2011-03-23T01:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T06:58:37","slug":"optimists-name-essay-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/03\/23\/optimists-name-essay-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimists name essay contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Optimist Club of Van Wert recently judged students in its essay contest based on the topic \u201cHow My Education is the Key to a Successful Future.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5109\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5109 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/VW-Optimist-Club-essay-winners-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"217\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert Optimist Club essay winners (from the left) Linzey Rice, Taylor Grooms and Jordan Mohr. (Optimist Club photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three Van Wert High School students were honored during the March 10\u00a0Optimist Club meeting while presenting their essays.\u00a0 Linzey Rice won first place and was awarded a $200 check and gold medallion.\u00a0 In addition, her winning essay was submitted to the district level to be judged.\u00a0 Taylor Grooms finished in second place and was awarded a $100 check and silver medallion.\u00a0 Third place was awarded to Jordan Mohr, who received a $50 check and a bronze medallion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese students did a wonderful job of articulating this year\u2019s theme.\u00a0 Also, special thanks to the judges of the contest for their time and talent,\u201d stated Optimist Essay Chair Diana Cearns.\u00a0 Judges this year were Bitsy Clark, Al Arnold and Amy Prichard.\u00a0 There were 113 essay entries from students at Crestview, Lincolnview and Van Wert high schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Optimist Club of Van Wert recently judged students in its essay contest based on the topic \u201cHow My Education is the Key to a Successful Future.\u201d Three Van Wert High School students were honored during the March 10\u00a0Optimist Club meeting while presenting their essays.\u00a0 Linzey Rice won first place and was awarded a $200 [&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-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 04:55:58","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\/5108","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=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}