{"id":401547,"date":"2026-09-16T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401547\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:32:36","slug":"submissions-open-for-scholarships-from-vfw-post-4353-and-auxiliary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401547\/","title":{"rendered":"Submissions open for scholarships from VFW Post 4353 and Auxiliary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 4353 and the VFW Post 4353 Auxiliary are sponsoring two scholarship programs: the Voice of Democracy Competition and the Patriot\u2019s Pen Essay Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Voice Of Democracy is a written and spoken audio-essay contest on \u201cWhat a Veteran Taught Me About America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is open to students in grades 9-12.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions must be received no later than Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Patriot\u2019s Pen is a written essay contest on \u201cWhat a Veteran Taught Me About America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is open to students in grades 6-8.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions must be received no later than Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to a lot of great essays from our local students,\u201d VFW Post 4353 reported.<\/p>\n<p>Drop off or send submissions to VFW Post 4353, at 8150 Stringfellow Road, St. James City, FL 33956.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, including essay applications and eligibility requirements, visit https:\/\/vfw.org\/community\/youth-and-education\/youth-scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, contact VFW Post 4353 at 239-283-2277 and ask for Cmdr. Randy Frank or text 239-243-7283; or VFW Post 4353 Auxiliary\u2019s Joyce Lake at 616-283-7121 or Deb Hayward at 239-314-9581.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 4353 and the VFW Post 4353 Auxiliary are sponsoring two scholarship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-401547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}