{"id":18177,"date":"2026-01-01T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:34:38","slug":"the-blue-gill-fishing-club-donates-to-local-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/the-blue-gill-fishing-club-donates-to-local-59\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Gill Fishing Club Donates to Local 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18178 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-1-349x250.jpg 349w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/download-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Dawn Scotland<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Truth Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Gill Fishing Club presented a $500 donation to Local 59 Sunday evening December 21<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to thank the club for the donation to Local 59 members that are on strike right now,\u201d stated Dave Nelson, Local 59 president. \u201cWe really appreciate it. It will go far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not only an honor and a privilege but we\u2019re very grateful that we were able to donate to the Local 59 and help them see some kind of daylight,\u201d said John Chapman, president of the Blue Gill Fishing Club. \u201cI hope they hurry up and settle the strike because it\u2019s not only affecting them but it\u2019s affecting the families,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy that we receive support from the community, remarked George Amison vice president of Local 59 . \u201cIt\u2019s been a long road for us. \u00a0We\u2019ve been out for four months and we\u2019re still standing strong. But things like this really help, especially around Christmas time. To be out is just bad for everybody\u2026 It\u2019s good to cheer up our members up and let them know we\u2019re not out here alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Gill Fishing Club was organized in 1992 by five community men, initially as a social club. Over the years, the Blue Gill has also evolved into a service club that raises funds for scholarships, to feed neighborhood youth and to assist community action organizations in their missions. The Blue Gill Fishing Club is located at 642 Detroit Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dawn Scotland The Truth Reporter The Blue Gill Fishing Club presented a $500 donation to Local 59 Sunday evening December 21st. \u201cWe would like to thank the club for the donation to Local 59 members that are on strike right now,\u201d stated Dave Nelson, Local 59 president. \u201cWe really appreciate it. It will go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[327],"class_list":["post-18177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177","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=18177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18180,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions\/18180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}