{"id":87526,"date":"2017-05-09T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=87526"},"modified":"2017-05-09T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:43:19","slug":"new-events-set-for-2017-peony-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/05\/09\/new-events-set-for-2017-peony-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"New events set for 2017 Peony Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost time for the Van Wert Peony Festival, and June 2-4 will be a weekend of free and nearly free family friendly entertainment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39465\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Peony-Festival-6-2012-Queen-Jubilee.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Jubilee XXXVII Alex Burchfield waves to the crowd during the 2012 Peony Festival Grand Parade. (VW independent file photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"309\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Queen Jubilee XXXVII Alex Burchfield waves to the crowd during the 2012 Peony Festival Grand Parade.<\/strong> <em>(VW independent file photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Peony Festival Committee has announced a few new additions to the festival. Performances by The Van Wert Dance Club and Van Wert Jazz Dancers from the Bachwell will take place in Fountain Park.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a Mom to Mom sale will take place in the S.F. Goedde Building from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (those who want to set up a table can contact Marcie Eberle at 419.203.1423), followed by a teen dance for youths in grades 7-9.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Roehm will be making balloon animals and there will be a photo booth for festivalgoers\u2019 entertainment as well.<\/p>\n<p>These new items are in addition to the festival\u00a0favorites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The free kids fishing derby, the YMCA Color Run, the many craft and artist vendors, Friday night\u2019s concert with Groove Essential and Saturday night\u2019s concert with Section Ate, the free car show, carnival rides, trackless train ride, and, of course, the Grand Parade, make this a weekend of fun for everyone,&#8221; said Festival Committee President Zoe Longstreth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information It\u2019s almost time for the Van Wert Peony Festival, and June 2-4 will be a weekend of free and nearly free family friendly entertainment. The Peony Festival Committee has announced a few new additions to the festival. Performances by The Van Wert Dance Club and Van Wert Jazz Dancers from the Bachwell will [&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-87526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 04:20:53","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\/87526","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=87526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}