{"id":10716,"date":"2023-04-19T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:32:12","slug":"vfw-community-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=10716","title":{"rendered":"VFW Community Awards Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VFW Post 6073 and their Auxiliary honored local award recipients and contest winners. <!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10717 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/VFWbanquet-1024x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/VFWbanquet-1024x430.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/VFWbanquet-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/VFWbanquet-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/VFWbanquet.jpg 1233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><br \/>\nFor the Illustrating America Art Contest, K-8, the winners were: for category K-2 | Jaxon Summers | First-grade at Rosalie School | teacher: Katelyn Manning Bullock; for category 3-5 | Sadie Lewis | Fifth-grade at Collins Intermediate School | teacher: Sara Anderton; for category 6-8 | Kailey West | Sixth-grade at Skyline High School | teacher: Lea Kirkland.<\/p>\n<p>For the Young American Creative Patriotic Art: grades 9-12 | Ariel Chen | Tenth-grade at Scottsboro High School | teacher: Christi Wray. Award recipients for Patriot\u2019s Pen essay contest were: Maeleigh Golden | 2nd place [not pictured]; Chloe Keeter | 1st place.<\/p>\n<p>For Voice of Democracy: Christion Petty | 3rd place; Lauren Woodall | 2nd place; Lydianne Passmore | 1st place. Teacher of the Year: Lindsey Popper [not pictured].<\/p>\n<p>EMT of the Year: Coty Roberts [accepted on his behalf by Ashley Pool.<\/p>\n<p>Law Enforcement Officer of the Year | Brandon Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter of the Year | Chief Patrick Allen [pictured on right].<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of you! It is worth noting that Ariel Chen\u2019s submission has been entered into another contest at the state level, and she could be the winner of a $15,000 scholarship. These contests and scholarships are available to apply for and enter every year. For more information about these programs, contact Gayla Sue Mendez at gaylasuemendez@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VFW Post 6073 and their Auxiliary honored local award recipients and contest winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10718,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}