{"id":1015,"date":"2023-02-08T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/?page_id=1015"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:56:35","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1015\" class=\"elementor elementor-1015\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1291756 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1291756\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4c4c7fa\" data-id=\"4c4c7fa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43e11ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43e11ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"primary_box\"><h2 class=\"style27\" align=\"center\"><br \/><span class=\"style132\">Who We Are&#8230;<\/span><\/h2><p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/PDF_files\/IOBGA_WhoWeAre.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p><p align=\"center\"><span class=\"style133\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/images\/DividerNauticalRope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"25\" \/><\/span><span class=\"style133\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/images\/DividerNauticalRope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"25\" \/><\/span><\/p><h2 class=\"style233\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style237\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"style132\">IOBGA Book Project<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"style237\" align=\"center\">The IOBGA Executive Committee wishes to strongly encourage local chapters to initiate a<br \/><br \/><br \/>community outreach program that distributes books to groups in need of literacy materials.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/>To encourage your program a $100 grant is available.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/BookProject\/BookProjectFundApplication.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download the application&#8230;<\/a><br \/><br \/><br \/>Please fill out this application and submit to:<br \/><br \/><br \/>\u00a0 Nancy Bisanz, Secretary<br \/><br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 529 Victoria Road<br \/><br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 Woodstock, GA 30189<br \/><br \/><br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408\/mailto:Buzznan1111@yahoo.com\">Buzznan1111@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p><div align=\"center\"><table width=\"561\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"245\"><div align=\"right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/BookProject\/2019\/imagejpeg_0(3).jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/div><\/td><td width=\"304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/BookProject\/2019\/imagejpeg_0(1).jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><h2 class=\"style237\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style132\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"style133\">District 7 Book Project<\/span><br \/><br \/><\/h2><div align=\"center\"><table width=\"775\"><tbody><tr><td><p class=\"style128\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\">At the International Change of Watch meeting in 2017, then President Sandi Durieux reported that the<br \/><br \/>book project being discussed was too large of a project to take on as an international project. She asked<br \/><br \/>for one District to step up and get it started.\u00a0 District 7 volunteered and we have donated to 3 schools<br \/><br \/>over the last 2 years and plan to donate to another 3 schools this year.<br \/><br \/><br \/>There are no guidelines in place for this project so we have been making our donations based on the needs<br \/><br \/>of the school.\u00a0 Our first year we were introduced to Bio Med School in Ravenna Ohio.\u00a0 This was a start-up<br \/><br \/>school and they were trying to stock a library.\u00a0 We donated $500 to the school and they were able to<br \/><br \/>purchase 118 brand new hard cover books for the library.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/>In our second year IOBGA international gave us $100 and our Gavel gave us $500 toward the project.\u00a0 We<br \/><br \/>chose 2 schools, Broadmoor School and Painesville Local schools both in Ohio.\u00a0 Broadmoor is a school for<br \/><br \/>special needs children of all ages.\u00a0 They were able to add around 100 new books to their library.\u00a0 Painesville<br \/><br \/>took the $500 and purchased over 300 books to supply their summer book box program, a program<br \/><br \/>intended to keep students reading throughout the summer.<br \/><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/BookProject\/2019\/District7BookProject.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read more about the District 7 Book Project&#8230;<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><table width=\"561\"><tbody><tr><td width=\"284\" height=\"31\"><div align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/BookProject\/2019\/imagejpeg_0.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/div><\/td><td width=\"265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/BookProject\/2019\/imagejpeg_0(2).jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><p class=\"style133\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/images\/DividerNauticalRope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"25\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/images\/DividerNauticalRope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p><\/div><div class=\"secondary_box\"><div class=\"secondary_box1\"><div class=\"box1\"><table border=\"0\" width=\"755\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" align=\"center\"><tbody><tr><td valign=\"top\" width=\"362\" height=\"529\"><h1 align=\"center\">Updates:<\/h1><blockquote><p class=\"style205\" align=\"center\">The May 2021 LOG Newsletter is now available. Click on the links below to view the newsletter.<\/p><p class=\"ourprojectrow2\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/Newsletters\/Log_issues\/2021%20IOBG_LOG\/IOBGLog5_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/Newsletters\/Log_issues\/2021%20IOBG_LOG\/IOBGLog5_2021Cover.pdf\" width=\"300\" height=\"397\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p><p class=\"ourprojectrow2\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/Newsletters\/Log_issues\/2021%20IOBG_LOG\/IOBGLog5_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2021 LOG Newsletter<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/td><td valign=\"top\" width=\"386\"><div align=\"center\"><h1>News &amp; Events:<\/h1><\/div><div align=\"center\"><span class=\"style234\">Belated Farewell<\/span><br \/><span class=\"style205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106005408im_\/http:\/\/iobga.org\/images\/officers_board\/Lucy_Anthony.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"142\" \/><br \/><span class=\"style234\">Past President<br \/>Lucille Ellen Anthony<br \/><\/span><\/span><span class=\"style237\">December 23, 1940-July 5, 2019<\/span><span class=\"style205\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><p align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style205\">We bid farewell to our own International Order of the Blue Gavel Auxiliary Past President Lucille Ellen Anthony, who has embarked on her final voyage.<br \/><br \/>Her life was abundant with accomplishments from working many years in the savings and loan business, to having a second career working in the Solano County Sheriff&#8217;s Office where she retired in 2011, to serving as our leader from 2010-2011. Lucille was an outstanding member of her community and volunteered work at the David Grant Medical Center Chaplain\u2019s office.<br \/><br \/>She enjoyed boating, traveling and also belong to several yacht clubs over the years.<br \/><br \/>She will be truly missed by all, especially her husband of 44 years, John Anthony along with her children and grandchildren.<br \/><br \/>We bid you \u201chail and farewell\u201d shipmate, until we drop anchor beside you at the last Great Rendezvous.<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who We Are&#8230; IOBGA Book Project The IOBGA Executive Committee wishes to strongly encourage local chapters to initiate a community outreach program that distributes books to groups in need of literacy materials.\u00a0 To encourage your program a $100 grant is available.\u00a0 Click here to download the application&#8230; Please fill out this application and submit to: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1015\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuajohnwagner.com\/iobg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}