{"id":68280,"date":"2015-09-25T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=68280"},"modified":"2015-09-25T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:26:05","slug":"business-expo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/09\/25\/business-expo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Business-Expo-crowd.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68281\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"2015 Business Expo-crowd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Business-Expo-crowd.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Participants in Thursday\u2019s Business Expo\/Taste of Van Wert County got to sample food from several area restaurants and food vendors and also talk to a number of other business representatives at Wassenberg Art Center. Those providing free food samples included <\/b><b>Gibson\u2019s BBQ, Schlotzky\u2019s Bakery &amp; Cafe, Bob Evans, Truly D\u2019vine, Fricker\u2019s, Little Caesar\u2019s, Elks Lodge, Black Angus on Main and the DeShia Gathering Room. A total of 45 business exhibits were at this year\u2019s well-attended event, which is put on by the Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce. Sponsors this year include Alexander &amp; Bebout and Central Insurance Companies (this year\u2019s premier sponsors), and\u00a0gold sponsors Central Soft Water Systems, Culligan, Vantage Career Center, Van Wert Manor (shown below), and R&amp;R Employment and Medical Staffing. <\/b><i>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Business-Expo-VW-Manor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68282\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"2015 Business Expo-VW Manor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Business-Expo-VW-Manor.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in Thursday\u2019s Business Expo\/Taste of Van Wert County got to sample food from several area restaurants and food vendors and also talk to a number of other business representatives at Wassenberg Art Center. Those providing free food samples included Gibson\u2019s BBQ, Schlotzky\u2019s Bakery &amp; Cafe, Bob Evans, Truly D\u2019vine, Fricker\u2019s, Little Caesar\u2019s, Elks Lodge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 06:13:29","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\/68280","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=68280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}