{"id":51256,"date":"2026-05-30T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=51256"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:48:13","slug":"friends-of-independence-dam-state-park-receives-5000-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/friends-of-independence-dam-state-park-receives-5000-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Independence Dam State Park Receives $5,000 Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"442\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Friends-of-the-Indp.-State-Dam.jpg?fit=666%2C442&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51257\" style=\"width:450px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Pictured with the grant are (L to R) Deb Mannon Volunteer &#8211; Friends of Independence Dam State Park VP,\u00a0 Karen Beckman &#8211; Friends of Independence Dam State Park President and Dan Michel &#8211; DAF Board President.\u00a0<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to the Friends of Independence Dam State Park for receiving a $5,000 grant during the Defiance Area Foundation (DAF) spring grant cycle. This grant was gifted from the Capital Projects Fund, held under the DAF umbrella. The grant will be put towards the continued fundraising\u00a0of the new park pavilion, as well as for the upcoming AM250- Ohio Walk Through History Event taking place on August 8th\u00a0and 9th.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Friends of Independence Dam State Park for receiving a $5,000 grant during the Defiance Area Foundation (DAF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51257,"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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2230,6,13406],"tags":[20649,20691,29100,26160,29101,29102],"class_list":["post-51256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-not-for-profit","tag-daf","tag-dan-michel","tag-deb-mannon","tag-friends-of-independence-dam-state-park","tag-independence-dam-state-park","tag-karen-beckman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Friends-of-the-Indp.-State-Dam.jpg?fit=666%2C442&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-dkI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 20:12:42","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\/51256","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=51256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51258,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51256\/revisions\/51258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}