{"id":15851,"date":"2025-03-28T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15851"},"modified":"2025-03-23T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T04:34:16","slug":"awe-open-house-april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/awe-open-house-april-4\/","title":{"rendered":"AWE open house April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime Traer business is celebrating 20 years at its &#8220;new&#8221; location on the east edge of town.<\/p>\n<p>AWE moved from the auto shop addition at the north-side gas station to the Vokoun Co. site in 2005. The business is owned by Gretchen Pargeon, whose husband Mike died in 2018. (By happenstance, <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/mike-pargeon-1966-2018\/\">I happened to see Mike on his last day<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>AWE is hosting an open house on April 4 from 2 to 7. The <em>North Tama Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northtamatelegraph.com\/news\/local-news\/2025\/03\/21\/a-w-e-auto-service-celebrates-20-years-at-new-location\/\">has an interview with Pargeon<\/a> and a history of the auto shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime Traer business is celebrating 20 years at its &#8220;new&#8221; location on the east edge of town. AWE moved from the auto shop addition at the north-side gas station to the Vokoun Co. site in 2005. The business is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/awe-open-house-april-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851\/revisions\/15852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}