{"id":99423,"date":"2018-03-03T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99423"},"modified":"2018-03-03T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T13:44:57","slug":"youths-sought-for-sister-city-trip-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/03\/youths-sought-for-sister-city-trip-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Youths sought for Sister City trip to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Sister City Cultural Exchange program is currently seeking 8-10 students between the ages of 13 and 17 during the summer of 2019 to be part of Van Wert\u2019s Sister City delegation to Sumoto City, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Information and application packets have been provided to Crestview, Lincolnview, and Van Wert high schools, with applications due into Van Wert Mayor Jerry Mazur\u2019s office no later than Friday, May 4.\u00a0A committee will review applications and possibly hold face-to-face interviews in order to choose delegation candidates by no later than May 30 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great opportunity for county young people to learn about and experience a foreign culture.\u00a0Sumoto City will also be sending a cultural exchange delegation to Van Wert this year on July 24-29.<\/p>\n<p>Those wanting more information on the trip, about the delegation coming to Van Wert, or who would like to be part of the committee, should contact Bill Walls at 419.203.4744 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:billwalls77@gamil.com\">billwalls77@gamil.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert Sister City Cultural Exchange program is currently seeking 8-10 students between the ages of 13 and 17 during the summer of 2019 to be part of Van Wert\u2019s Sister City delegation to Sumoto City, Japan. Information and application packets have been provided to Crestview, Lincolnview, and Van Wert high [&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-99423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:11:35","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\/99423","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=99423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}