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154 YEARS • NO. 35
OSCEOLA, IOWA 50213
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014
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OFFICIAL DESIGNATION
Clarke County becomes state’s third Home Base Iowa Community By AMY HANSEN
OST news editor • ahansen@osceolaiowa.com
It’s good to be No. 3. On Tuesday, Aug. 19, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds was at Salford Farm Machinery in Osceola to designate Clarke County as the state’s third Home Base Iowa Community. “Honestly, there’s nothing like coming back home, especially when we’re celebrating a success like this,” Reynolds said. “I’m really proud of Clarke County and Osceola for becoming a Home Base Iowa Community.” Home Base Iowa designated communities serve as centers of opportunity for military veterans. Home Base Iowa is a non-profit, private-public partnership that focuses on recruiting veterans and active duty service members for quality, well-paying private-sector jobs in Iowa. All Home Base Iowa Communities must have 10 percent of businesses in the area achieve Home Base Iowa Business status, develop its own incentive package for veterans and obtain a resolution of support from the appropriate
OST photo by AMY HANSEN
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Murray Elementary Principal Dan Jensen gets drenched in ice water from a Bobcat
inloader after school Thursday, Aug. 21. Jensen had accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which is a social media phenomenon of people dumping a bucket of ice water on themselves and nominating other people to do the same thing. It is also a fundraiser for the ALS Association, which does global research in attempt to find treatments and a cure for the disease commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Jensen said the issue is personal to him because his brother-in-law died of ALS at the age of 44 approximately 10 years ago. Jensen said he was doing the challenge in honor of his brother-in-law. Jensen’s daughter challenged him, and he nominated five people to do the challenge before ice water was dumped on him. FYI: Jensen was wearing a helmet during the challenge.
SKETCHED OUT City logo draws a lot of pubilc reaction, council postpones final approval By AMY HANSEN
OST news editor ahansen@osceolaiowa.com
Weak. Doesn’t stand out. Generic. Sterile. Looks like a Q-tip, pop tab or Ouija board. These were some of the public’s reactions to the proposed city of Osceo-
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These are preliminary designs of how the proposed city of Osceola logo could be used for different city departments. SINGLE COPY PRICE: 75¢
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la logo during a public hearing at an Aug. 19 Osceola City Council meeting. Discussion on the logo lasted for approximately an hour and the room was packed with people. First, there were concerns about if the GPS locator design on the proposed logo was already trademarked because once the logo goes through final approval by the city council, it would become city property. Many in the crowd wanted to know if there were any other options. The council discussed there have been several public meetings and a committee was formed to help design the logo. This has taken place throughout the past year. Ty Wheeler, city administrator/ clerk, said this was actually the second attempt at creating a logo. The project first began with the update of the city’s website. “This isn’t the only variation. … One of our goals in this project, which we don’t have as an organization right now, is to develop a consistent logo for the city property — the departments,” Wheeler said. “What this does is not only allow, you could consider this the formal, the main logo, but then you can branch out of that depending on what kind of space you’re working with and the theme is consistent. It’s not various renditions of Warrior Osceola. It’s not feathers. It’s not other items. It’s a consistent theme, which we can then use when we’re marketing the city.” The logo will eventually be found on city vehicles, business cards, signage, letterheads, shirts and more. The new logo is actually two different versions that are essentially the same design. There’s a large version of the logo, as well as a smaller one. Allowed to use Wheeler said the city is allowed to
use the design of the GPS locater. During group discussion, it was mentioned the look of a GPS locater is a royalty-free icon. It can’t be trademarked or copy written — anybody can use it. The logo as whole can be copy written, but the little GPS locator can’t be. Any changes made to the icon during the design made the icon its own graphic. Many people in the crowd wanted a design to show how friendly of a community Osceola is. “How do we show friendly because that’s something that comes up?” asked Councilman Dennis Page. Sarah Truitt said the logo the committee had other designs for the logo project, including depicting what the renovated downtown Osceola square would look like. She said there were three awesome choices that also included the feather and the train depot, but nobody liked those choices a year ago. “I am so thrilled just to have people here and input — wonderful comments,” Truitt said. “… It’s been so much work I think that we’re stuck, but I think that we all seem to be moving in the direction of ‘We like Osceola. We really like living here.’ And, so maybe we need to look at some of those we had before.” Brad Hansen, who served on the committee, said they chose something that was simplistic, but could be added to if need be. “In discussion, one of the most important parts of this community was its location,” Hansen said. “Osceola has so many attributes that it really couldn’t be inclusive for all of those things without becoming cluttered. We chose something that was really pretty simple.”
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Neighbors.....................5 Public Notices........ 9-10 Record..........................2 Sports........................ 6-7
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Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds designates Clarke County as the third Home Base Iowa Community during a ceremony at Salford Farm Machinery Tuesday, Aug. 19.
COMING SOON Check out a video of Osceola’s Latino Festival at www.osceolaiowa.com. The video was produced by the paper’s video journalist stringer Jordan Earley and features of interview with Congressman Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, who attended the event.
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governing body. The other two Home Base Iowa Communities in the state are Greene and Howard counties. Helping veterans “We want to attract retiring and transitioning military members who have the skills, the determination, the discipline, and, of course, the teamwork to help companies in our communities grow,” Reynolds said. Bill Trickey, executive director of Clarke County Iowa Development Corporation, was at Salford to accept Clarke County’s official designation as a Home Base Iowa community. Clarke County was awarded this honor for its commitment to develop and grow a public-private partnership between the county and local businesses that will promote hiring of U.S. military veterans. Clarke County will take the initiative in displaying and marketing the Home Base Iowa designation within numerous websites and community signage. Officials have also identified several items to be included for the veterans in a
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Don’t Forget Farmers’ market
The farmer’s market is planned 8 a.m. to noon Saturday on the courthouse lawn.
Highs in the upper 80s thunderstorms. possible. CHECK OUT OSCEOLAIOWA.COM FOR DAILY UPDATED NEWS, DEATH NOTICES AND SPORTS. and lows in the low 70s.