{"id":11575,"date":"2024-03-21T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=11575"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:35:05","slug":"the-toledo-jeep-fest-is-returning-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/the-toledo-jeep-fest-is-returning-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toledo Jeep Fest Is Returning This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11576\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bruce-Baumhower-of-UAW-Local-12-speaks-as-Tony-Packos-Lindsey-Bond-LC-Commissioners-Pete-Gerken-and-TARTAs-Laura-Koprowski-look-on.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Baumhower of UAW Local 12 speaks as Tony Packo&#8217;s Lindsey Bond, LC Commissioners Pete Gerken and TARTA&#8217;s Laura Koprowski look on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Toledo Jeep Fest, which started nine years ago and has seen a steady growth in attendance over the years, will return this summer during the weekend of August 2 and, according to event organizers, this year\u2019s attendance will be even greater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the biggest event of the summer,\u201d said Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken during Monday\u2019s announcement. Gerken, a Jeep retiree, was accompanied during the announcement by representatives of the partners and sponsors of the event: \u00a0Laura Kowproski, CEO of TARTA, Lindsey Bond, senior director of Operations &amp; Marketing for Tony Packo\u2019s, fellow Commissioner Lisa Sobecki, Bruce Baumhower of UAW 12 and Doug Kearns of Yark Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>TARTA is returning as the official transportation sponsor, Yark Jeep will be the All-Jeep Parade Sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Jeep Fest brought in over 72,000 attendees, from 40 different states and several different countries and had an impact of $5.5 million on the local economy, said Sobecki. She also noted that the event \u201chonors the men and women in these plants who are so essential to our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeep history begins in 1941 when it was designed under contract by the United States military ad a four-wheel drive utility vehicle for use in world War II. Dana is credited as the co-inventor of the Jeep, along with the U.S. Army, Bantam, Ford and Willys-Overland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff The Toledo Jeep Fest, which started nine years ago and has seen a steady growth in attendance over the years, will return this summer during the weekend of August 2 and, according to event organizers, this year\u2019s attendance will be even greater. \u201cThis is the biggest event of the summer,\u201d said Lucas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[221],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11577,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions\/11577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}