{"id":16028,"date":"2024-05-10T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=16028"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:03:16","slug":"vets-banners-going-up-in-decatur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/vets-banners-going-up-in-decatur\/","title":{"rendered":"Vets banners going up in Decatur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Decatur has announced that banners honoring local military veterans will soon be placed on light poles in the downtown area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, first announced last September, is organized by the Antoine Rivarre chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to have these banners in Decatur and want to thank the group for organizing this,\u201d the city said in its posting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/18FE0781F9634BC5B1EA3046B2664B36.jpg?resize=640%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/18FE0781F9634BC5B1EA3046B2664B36.jpg?w=695&amp;ssl=1 695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/18FE0781F9634BC5B1EA3046B2664B36.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>From left, Mayor Dan Rickord and Antoine Rivarre chapter of the DAR members Carol Luther, Denise Franz, Anita Miller and Jean Brune.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 36 banners carrying the faces of men and women who have served or are serving in the military are going up on Monroe, First and Third streets in the downtown area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City officials said earlier they would leave Second St. open to the events that happen each year, and special banners that have already been purchased for those areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rivarre chapter is handling all aspects of the banner project with no cost to the city \u2013 other than employees mounting and removing the banners \u2013 no paperwork nor liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The banners will stay in place until mid-November, then be turned over to the veterans on the displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur has announced that banners honoring local military veterans will soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-16028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}