{"id":80090,"date":"2016-09-21T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=80090"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:12:03","slug":"united-way-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/09\/21\/united-way-campaign-2\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Purmort-Brothers.jpg\" alt=\"purmort-brothers\" width=\"545\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>United Way partnered with Purmort Brothers Insurance and Van Wert Athletics to sponsor their first \u201cCampaign Kick-Off\u201d football event at the Van Wert-Lima Shawnee game last Friday night. The evening\u2019s event featured a \u201cKick for Cash\u201d sponsored by Purmort Brothers. The winner of the halftime drawing attempted a field goal kick at the start of the third quarter. If the kick was successful they won $100 from Purmort Brothers. The second event was a drawing for two Ohio State vs. Indiana University football tickets that were donated for the event, which were won by Randy Agler. The total raised for the evening was $901, which will go towards the 2016 United Way campaign. The goal for this year is $475,000. Shown are (from the left) United Way assistant Amanda Miller, Purmort Brothers CEO Michele Purmort Mooney, Purmort Brothers CFO\/COO Leah Purmort Treece, United Way Executive Director Vicki Smith, Campaign Chair Mark Verville, and Van Wert Athletic Director Craig Hershey.<\/strong> <em>(United Way photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Way partnered with Purmort Brothers Insurance and Van Wert Athletics to sponsor their first \u201cCampaign Kick-Off\u201d football event at the Van Wert-Lima Shawnee game last Friday night. The evening\u2019s event featured a \u201cKick for Cash\u201d sponsored by Purmort Brothers. The winner of the halftime drawing attempted a field goal kick at the start of [&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-80090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 00:10:39","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\/80090","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=80090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}