{"id":17253,"date":"2024-06-17T06:14:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T10:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=17253"},"modified":"2024-06-17T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T10:14:33","slug":"more-vets-banners-planned-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/more-vets-banners-planned-for-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"More vets banners planned for next year"},"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 banners honoring military veterans which went up in Decatur last month have proven to be highly popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why city council, at its latest meeting, didn&#8217;t pause for one second in giving approval to additional banners next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnamed-24.jpg?resize=272%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnamed-24.jpg?w=272&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnamed-24.jpg?resize=164%2C300&amp;ssl=1 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Pictured is the banner in downtown Decatur honoring former mayor Fred Isch. (Photo by Bob Shraluka)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Community Coordinator Jamie Gephart, who has worked with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the Antoine Rivarre chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) \u2013 which has handled all aspects of the program \u2013 said the group would like council&#8217;s approval to add even more to next year&#8217;s project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 30 banners are currently up in the downtown area. The DAR has received funds from a donor to pay for the cost of additional brackets from which to hang more banners on light poles next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council was also fine with the notion that some of the new batch of vets may not be in uniform due to poor quality of some photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gephart said the DAR would probably begin the second phase of the project in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veterans, their families and friends paid for the banners, which will remain up until mid-November, then be given back to them. Then the process will restart, requiring new applications and fees on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The banners are on poles on Monroe, First and Third streets in the downtown area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City officials want to 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The banners honoring military veterans which went up in Decatur last month have proven<\/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-17253","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\/17253","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=17253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}