{"id":68028,"date":"2015-09-17T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=68028"},"modified":"2015-09-17T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T13:39:57","slug":"candidates-night-speaker-dies-afterward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/09\/17\/candidates-night-speaker-dies-afterward\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates Night speaker dies afterward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Heart Land Patriots&#8217; Candidates&#8217; Night on Tuesday was also the scene of tragedy when one of the speakers that night later collapsed and died.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68003\" style=\"width: 122px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milo-Schaffner-obit-photo-9-2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-68003   \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Milo J. Schaffner Jr.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Milo-Schaffner-obit-photo-9-2015.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Milo J. Schaffner<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Milo J. Schaffner Jr., a Hoaglin Township trustee and longtime farmer and local business owner, was the last speaker on the event&#8217;s agenda. Schaffner spoke of his opposition to Ohio House Bill 190, which he felt would negatively impact the rights of property owners.<\/p>\n<p>Following his talk, Schaffner left the Fireside Room in Trinity Friends Church&#8217;s Family Life Center and then collapsed in the hallway outside. Volunteers quickly began administering CPR and a Van Wert Fire Department EMS squad arrived minutes later to provide treatment and, later, to transport Schaffner to Van Wert County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Schaffner did not respond to treatment and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 8:39 Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Jo, and three sons:\u00a0Gregory (Cheryl) Schaffner, Brian (Lisa) Schaffner and Jason (Linda) Schaffner <em>(his full obituary can be found on the Obituaries Page).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent The Heart Land Patriots&#8217; Candidates&#8217; Night on Tuesday was also the scene of tragedy when one of the speakers that night later collapsed and died. Milo J. Schaffner Jr., a Hoaglin Township trustee and longtime farmer and local business owner, was the last speaker on the event&#8217;s agenda. Schaffner spoke of his [&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-68028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:46:48","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\/68028","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=68028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}