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Relay for Life
Council approves continued planning of rec center By BAILEY POOLMAN OST staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com
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ABOVE: Lynsey Manternach and her husband, Zach, both formerly of Clarke County, take laps around the Clarke Community High School track during the Relay for Life of Clarke County Friday at the track. Lynsey was the honorary survivor of the local relay, conquering NUT midline carcinoma in February 2015. BELOW LEFT: Jan Short, a cancer survivor, tells the crowd in a short snippet her experience with cancer during the opening ceremony of the Relay for Life of Clarke County held Friday at the Clarke Community High School track. Short was one of about 200 participants at the relay who helped bring in more than $17,000 for cancer research and awareness. BELOW RIGHT: Carleigh O’Dell performs an interpretive dance piece to Rachel Platten’s hit “Fight Song” during the survivor’s lap at Relay for Life of Clarke County Friday evening held at the Clarke Community High School track.
Osceola City Council members granted approval for the Osceola Parks and Recreation Board to continue planning the addition of a recreation building in the rec complex in town. The complex is currently located in the northern part of town near Clarke Community High School and includes an aquatic center, track and baseball and softball fields. “What the park board has done is look at other potential sites around town,” said Ty Wheeler, Osceola city administrator. “At their last meeting, they ultimately concluded the site next to the pool and high school is the site they wished to proceed with.” The property is owned by the city already, but the parks and recreation board members wanted approval by city council members before continuing with their plans to erect the building. “We don’t have a rec center in Osceola right now, so all of our events are spread out throughout the communi- Kedley ty,” said Osceola Mayor Thomas
“We have an outdoor swimming pool, a skate park, a nice bike trail going through there with disc golf, so the only thing we’re missing is an actual recreation building.” — Ty Wheeler
Osceola city administrator
Kedley, “which is putting a strain on our school buildings because we’re using their facilities right now.” The rec building could possibly have a track, racquetball court, weight room and other amenities to accommodate the local population. The next step, though, is to determine those specific functions by creating a needs assessment. “There were three or four sites we had them (parks and recreation board members) investigating, and they decided to go with the original site that they wanted years ago,” Wheeler said. “Now, we’ll have architects and people like that to help see it come to term.” Together, the building and other outdoor amenities will be considered the recreation complex. Other amenities included in that are a disc golf REC | 4
Preparations begin for Murray’s 150th anniversary By BAILEY POOLMAN
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Even though the anniversary of Murray’s founding isn’t for two years, preparations have begun to make this celebration better than the rest. And, in honor of the town’s 150th anniversary, a history book will be published for anyone to purchase. “Back in 1968, they wrote a 100-year book, so we’re doing a lot of continuation from our 100-year book,” said Joan SINGLE COPY PRICE: $1.00
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Callison, Murray 150th committee member. “It’s going to include a lot of stuff about town history and individual community members.” The book, which will be in the hands of those who purchased one in 2018, will tell the stories of 150 years of the history of Murray and its townspeople as a continuation of the Murray Centennial History Book. “I did a centennial book 50 years ago,” Callison said. “We sold out, and people have wanted it ever since. 150th | 4
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Summer fun: Aubri Conley, 3, takes a ride down the twisting slide with stepdad Eric Robinson, both of Osceola, Friday
at Osceola Family Aquatic Center. The aquatic center opened May 31 and Monday was the first of six free swims 5:30-8 p.m. Monday nights.
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