{"id":67571,"date":"2016-04-22T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67571"},"modified":"2016-04-21T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:46:48","slug":"canastota-churches-present-grant-to-wampsville-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67571","title":{"rendered":"Canastota Churches present grant to Wampsville Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=67572\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67572\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016 Wampsvilee VFD\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD-506x900.jpg 506w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD-400x711.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-Wampsvilee-VFD.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>The Canastota Area Association of Churches presented the third of four $500\u00a0grants to the Wampsville Volunteer Fire Department Wednesday, April 6. On\u00a0hand to receive the award from current CAAC President, Pastor Dave Allen of\u00a0Believers Chapel-Canastota was Wampsville VFD\u2019s company President Chris\u00a0Carrier and current Fire Chief, Monte Colluci.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cCanastota Volunteer First\u00a0Responders Awards\u201d are the replacement recognition for an appreciation dinner\u00a0formerly held each January over the past 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>The money for this year\u2019s grant came from a special reserve fund left over from\u00a0past years\u2019 fundraising and earmarked exclusively for volunteer recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0CAAC plans a letter campaign soon to raise funds to continue the awards\u00a0beyond the reserve\u2019s expected exhaustion in 2018. If public response is strong,\u00a0and a new chairman is identified, the CAAC Board acknowledges the possibility\u00a0that a dinner or similar recognition could return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canastota Area Association of Churches presented the third of four $500\u00a0grants to the Wampsville Volunteer Fire Department Wednesday, April 6. On\u00a0hand to receive the award from current CAAC President, Pastor Dave Allen of\u00a0Believers Chapel-Canastota was Wampsville VFD\u2019s company President Chris\u00a0Carrier and current Fire Chief, Monte Colluci. These \u201cCanastota Volunteer First\u00a0Responders Awards\u201d are the replacement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}