{"id":7741,"date":"2011-05-11T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2011-05-11T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T18:12:46","slug":"goedde-kids-help-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/goedde-kids-help-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Goedde kids help Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7742\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-11-11-cougars-den.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerstin Breece, Edie Laukhuf (Director of the American Red Cross for Van Wert County), and Hannah Bartlely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whoever made the assumption that kids can&#8217;t make a difference has never  been to the Goedde 5th Grade in Van Wert.\u00a0 Hannah Bartley and Kerstin  Breece from the 5th Grade were so disturbed by the images of those in  need after the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that they decided to do  something about it.\u00a0 The two girls worked with their parents to develop  the Goedde 5th Grade Change War for Japan.\u00a0 Their goal was to raise  $250 for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief program to aid those affected by the disaster in Japan.\u00a0 Classes were encouraged to bring in  spare coins and dollars.\u00a0 The class that brought in the most was Mrs.  Manken&#8217;s 5th Grade.\u00a0 They were\u00a0rewarded with a pizza lunch sponsored by  Hannah Bartley&#8217;s parents and Bartley Realty.\u00a0 In all the Goedde 5th  Graders and Staff raised $257 for Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever made the assumption that kids can&#8217;t make a difference has never been to the Goedde 5th Grade in Van Wert.\u00a0 Hannah Bartley and Kerstin Breece from the 5th Grade were so disturbed by the images of those in need after the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that they decided to do something about it.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vwcscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:00:20","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\/7741","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=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}