{"id":48041,"date":"2025-05-31T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=48041"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:43:42","slug":"meuleman-speaks-to-kiwanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/meuleman-speaks-to-kiwanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meuleman speaks to Kiwanis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"736\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kiwanis-1.jpeg?resize=666%2C736&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48031\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kiwanis-1.jpeg?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kiwanis-1.jpeg?resize=560%2C619&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kiwanis-1.jpeg?resize=260%2C287&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kiwanis-1.jpeg?resize=160%2C177&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Kiwanis Club of Paulding County was privileged to have Charity Meuleman, (Defiance\/Paulding Consolidated Job &amp; Family Services), as the guest speaker at the\u00a0May 8, 2025 club meeting.\u00a0Charity came at the invitation of Corey Walker, (Director, Paulding County Carnegie Library). Charity spoke to the Kiwanians about the need for Foster Families in Defiance and Paulding County Ohio and how to become a foster parent. Charity discussed the importance of fostering and how it can be life changing for families in time of need and struggle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kiwanis Club of Paulding County was privileged to have Charity Meuleman, (Defiance\/Paulding Consolidated Job &amp; Family Services), as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,6,13406],"tags":[25858,11243,25859,14215,5246],"class_list":["post-48041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-not-for-profit","tag-charity-meuleman","tag-corey-walker","tag-defiance-paulding-consolidated-job-family-services","tag-kiwanis-club-of-paulding-county","tag-paulding-county-carnegie-library"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kiwanis-1.jpeg?fit=666%2C736&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-cuR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 06:09:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48042,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48041\/revisions\/48042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}