{"id":1502,"date":"2017-06-11T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2017-06-11T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:22:19","slug":"bataviamiddle-school-students-talk-about-the-meaning-of-the-day-at-the-va-flag-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/bataviamiddle-school-students-talk-about-the-meaning-of-the-day-at-the-va-flag-day-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"BATAVIA\/Middle School students talk about the meaning of the day at the VA Flag Day Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VrPvpFGwJGI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first recognized observance of Flag Day was at a school in Wisconsin in 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Flag Day was established by a proclamation in 1916.<\/p>\n<p>In 1949, National Flag Day was then established by an Act of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Today, VA WNY Healthcare System held a Flag Day Ceremony along with 6th grade Batavia Middle School students who created essays about the meaning of the flag.<\/p>\n<p>Three students got the opportunity to read their essay aloud to the veterans in attendance and were awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Schrader, 1st place, Avelin Tomidy, 2nd place and Alex Bartz, 3rd place. Andrecia Richardson read Avelin&#8217;s essay since she could not attend the event today.<\/p>\n<p>Middle School Teacher Frank Panepento presented a book of essays written by all the 6th graders at the Middle School to Veteran Stephen Stenko.<\/p>\n<p>Panepento also presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Stenko on behalf of all veterans at the VA.<\/p>\n<p>Panepento then joined his fellow musicians, the St. Joe&#8217;s Brass Ensemble , in a musical tribute to the flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first recognized observance of Flag Day was at a school in Wisconsin in 1895. Flag Day was established by a proclamation in 1916. In 1949, National Flag Day was then established by an Act of Congress. Today, VA WNY Healthcare System held a Flag Day Ceremony along with 6th \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/bataviamiddle-school-students-talk-about-the-meaning-of-the-day-at-the-va-flag-day-ceremony\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[398,399],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batavia","category-genesee-county","tag-flag-day-ceremony","tag-va-wny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-oe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9671,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2019\/06\/14\/batavia-flag-day-ceremony-at-batavia-va\/","url_meta":{"origin":1502,"position":0},"title":"BATAVIA\/Flag Day ceremony at Batavia VA","author":"aka","date":"June 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U1pFAxDQ2iw A Flag Day ceremony was held at the Batavia VA\/ Western New York Healthcare System on Richmond Avenue on Friday morning. 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