{"id":9942,"date":"2023-11-22T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:14:03","slug":"salvation-army-bell-ringing-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/salvation-army-bell-ringing-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Army Bell Ringing Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Salvation Army kicked off its&#8217; 2023 Bell Ringing Season today at Kroger. The Salvation Army will have a kettle at Kroger and two kettles at Walmart in Decatur. If you are interested in ringing the Bell, please call The United Way office at (260) 728-2056. Jessica Thieme, Executive Director of The United Way, said, &#8220;Bell Ringing is an opportunity for many people of Adams County to give back to the community. We welcome students, adults, families, organizations, schools and many others to help us this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE.jpg?resize=640%2C366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C586&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C440&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C879&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1172&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BELL-RINGING-KICKOFF-PICTURE-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meryl Kukelhan makes the first Salvation Army donation for this Bell Ringing Season. Also pictured for the kickoff are, from left to right, Dan Rickord (Mayor of Decatur), Kenny Ketzler (Retired Chief of Police), Jeff Sheets(Decatur Fire Chief), Jessica Thieme(Executive Director of The United Way of Adams County), Chris Brite(Decatur Police Department Deputy Chief), Gregg Sprunger(Mayor of Berne), Jamie Stargel(Decatur Kroger Manager), Mark Cook(Decatur Police Department Sergeant) and Eric Beer (Adams County Sheriff&#8217;s Department Deputy Chief).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salvation Army kicked off its&#8217; 2023 Bell Ringing Season today at Kroger. The Salvation Army will have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[17,21],"class_list":["post-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news","tag-community","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}