{"id":61275,"date":"2015-03-02T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=61275"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:36:05","slug":"traditions-return-for-2015-peony-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/03\/02\/traditions-return-for-2015-peony-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditions return for 2015 Peony Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peony Festival information<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cBlooming Colors for 40 Years\u201d is the theme for the Peony Festival\u2019s birthday this year. To celebrate, the Peony Festival Committee is planning a couple of changes working to make the 2015 festival better than ever.<\/p>\n

First, the YMCA will be bringing its run downtown this year with some exciting new changes to increase the fun factor. Then to give a nod to Peony Festival\u2019s heritage, the parade will be going west down Main Street this year, which is the traditional parade route established in the 1930s and later in the first revival of the festival in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

\"Peony<\/a>\u201cSince the march won\u2019t be quite as long, we hope to increase the participation that has dwindled in the last few years and leave the participants with enough energy to come back to the park for more fun,\u201d said Peony Festival Committee President Zoe Longstreth.<\/p>\n

The Punt, Pass and Kick contest will return this year, and Longstreth urged local youths to come out and support the Cougar football team, while showing off their grid skills.<\/p>\n

The local Girl Scouts will also be returning with their children\u2019s games, as well as a small petting zoo to delight the young, as well as the young at heart.<\/p>\n

The Main Street Van Wert organization is also busy making sure area residents have all their favorite food vendors on hand, while ArtRageous on Main will feed participants\u2019 souls with the beautiful artwork of local artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking of beauty, we hope you will take some time during the festival to enjoy the display at Wassenberg Art Center,\u201d Longstreth added. \u201cEven the grounds around the \u2018The Wass\u2019 are becoming a work of art.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s festival will be held the first full weekend in June (June 5-7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peony Festival information \u201cBlooming Colors for 40 Years\u201d is the theme for the Peony Festival\u2019s birthday this year. To celebrate, the Peony Festival Committee is planning a couple of changes working to make the 2015 festival better than ever. First, the YMCA will be bringing its run downtown this year with some exciting new changes […]<\/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-61275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 01:50:29","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\/61275","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=61275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}