{"id":73136,"date":"2019-05-27T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=73136"},"modified":"2019-05-27T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T23:18:00","slug":"celebrating-hometown-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Hometown Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Along the streets of Nichols, 20 banners celebrating veterans now adorn the telephone poles as a part of the Nichols Hometown Heroes project organized by Veronica Ricketson, 16, of Girl Scout Troop 40993.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, May 25, Ricketson\u2019s work was celebrated in a short presentation on the Cady Library lawn followed by a tour of the banners around the town of Nichols.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrating Hometown Heroes\" class=\"wp-image-73137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner1-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner1-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>Veronica Ricketson, 16, of Girl Scout Troop 40993, organized the creation and hanging of the Hometown Heroes Banners in Nichols. On Saturday, May 25, Ricketson, her troop, and community members came together to celebrate her accomplishments and give recognition to veterans and their families. (Photo by Jacob Elsbree)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from honoring Nichols veterans, Ricketson was also going for the Girl Scout Gold Award, which is the highest award given to Girl Scouts. Ricketson likened it to the Eagle Scout title in Boy Scouts. She wanted to earn her award by celebrating Nichols veterans, or as they are called on the banners, hometown heroes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will have the full story in next weekend&#8217;s print edition of The Owego Pennysaver Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the streets of Nichols, 20 banners celebrating veterans now adorn the telephone poles as a part of the Nichols Hometown Heroes project organized by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating Hometown Heroes - Owego Pennysaver Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating Hometown Heroes - Owego Pennysaver Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Along the streets of Nichols, 20 banners celebrating veterans now adorn the telephone poles as a part of the Nichols Hometown Heroes project organized by...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Owego Pennysaver Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Owego-Pennysaver-49179420591\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-05-27T12:51:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-05-27T23:18:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner2-copy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"5811\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2993\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"psadvert\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"psadvert\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/\",\"name\":\"Celebrating Hometown Heroes - Owego Pennysaver Press\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner2-copy.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-05-27T12:51:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-05-27T23:18:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/#\/schema\/person\/e03684194434956dfb61f5ffcbc19492\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/05\/27\/celebrating-hometown-heroes\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner2-copy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/05\/Banner2-copy.jpg\",\"width\":5811,\"height\":2993,\"caption\":\"Veronica Ricketson, 16, of Girl Scout Troop 40993, speaks to a crowd at the Cady Library on Saturday, May 25, about her Girl Scout Gold Award project, Hometown Heroes, where she organized the creation and hanging of 20 banners throughout Nichols honoring veterans. 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