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SPORTS: Osceola girls and boys track teams win the Regional. PAGE 10
Osceola-raised golfer qualifies for U.S. Open BY SUZANNE LINDGREN EDITOR@OSCEOLASUN.COM
A man raised golfing on Osceola turf will head to the U.S. Open Championship this year for a second time. Charlie Danielson qualified May 20 at the U.S. Golf Association sectionals in Dallas Texas. The U.S. Open will be held at Pebble Beach Golf Club in California, June 13 - 16. What ran through the golfer’s mind as he GOLF WRX | GOLFWRX.COM cinched his spot at the Charlie Danielson said he championship? breathed a sigh of relief “Just a huge sigh of upon qualifying for the relief,” said Danielson, who has been recovering U.S. Open. The championfrom knee surgery since ship is set for June 13-16 at last July. “I’ve had a few Pebble Beach Golf Club in close calls earlier in the California. year and I felt that I was due for something good to go my way.” Local golfers and friends of the Danielson family also celebrated the achievement. “For him to get back to this level right away is impressive,” said Logan Schrock, director of golf SEE DANIELSON, PAGE 2
Osceola FFA team qualifies for Nationals BY ISABELLA WARNER STUDENT REPORTER
Future Farmers of America is a club at Osceola High School. This organization allows students to compete in a variety of events. They are given the opportunity to learn many new things and grow as an individual. FFA have over ten different divisions. This year at OHS the floriculture division has earned the opportunity to go to Nationals. “I encourage everyone to join,” Rachel Nelson stated. “I’ve grown tremendously in my leadership skills, in my speaking skills and as a person.” This year’s floriculture team is Rachel Nelson, Amber Newman, Emily Jaroscak, and Paige Haberle. They competed in the floriculture Career Development Event (CDE). Horse judging, cow judging, food science and soils are just some of the many different CDEs in FFA. For the state competition this year they took four different tests. They had to make six different ar-
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The Osceola High School floriculture team of Rachel Nelson, Amber Newman, Paige Haberle and Emily Jaroscak will be competing at Nationals.
rangements in an hour, take a written test, an ID test and a job interview. This is the first time a team from Osceola’s floriculture division is going to Nationals. “I didn’t expect to join FFA ever,” explained Haberle. “I became really close with my team, and we did really good. I’m glad I could help the team.” This FFA team doesn’t have a coach. Usually teams from other schools have coaches for
each CDE and practice weekly. Paul Jakupciak is their advisor and encourages them to study and helps them in any way they need. However, this team has taken it upon themselves to create their own study material and study on their own time. “We take it upon ourselves to study,” stated Nelson. “We met once a week for the past few weeks going into the state competition.” At the state competi-
tion this year Nelson was first individually, Newman was second, Haberle was seventh and Jaroscak was eighth. “We studied together and pushed each other to study and to do well,” Nelson said. Once these four high school girls go to Nationals they cannot compete again in that event. The prize money is $1,000 for the top individual and $1,000 for each member SEE FFA, PAGE 08
Soldier’s stories remembered in Ernie Pyle’s dispatches CONTRIBUTED PUBLISHER’S AUXILIARY
The son of a tenant farming parents in west-central Indiana, Ernie Pyle became history’s greatest war correspondent. When Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the tiny Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, his columns were being delivered to more than 14 million homes according to his New York Times obituary. During the war, Pyle wrote about the hardships and bravery of the common soldier, not grand strategy. His description of the G.I.’s life was more important to families on the home front than battlefront tactics of Gens. Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton or Omar Bradley. Prior to the United States’ entry into World War II, Pyle traveled to England and wrote about the Nazi’s continual bombing of Lon-
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don. His columns helped move the mood of America from isolationism to sympathy for the stubborn refusal of Great Britain to succumb to the will of Adolf Hitler. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist’s legacy rests in his words and the impact they had on Americans before and during a war that threatened to take the world behind a curtain of fascism. His columns open a window to NEWS 715-294-2314 editor@osceolasun.com
the hardships endured by the common U.S. soldier during World War II and serve today to honor what has been called “The Greatest Generation.” Through the National Newspaper Association, the Friends of Ernie Pyle and Scripps Howard Foundation made available the three columns Ernie Pyle wrote immediately after the Normandy landings. They are reprinted on page 8 with photos from the National Archives.
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ERNIE PYLE? The Ernie Pyle World War II Museum features the famous journalist’s birthplace and a museum dedicated to Pyle’s life and NATIONAL ARCHIVES writings as a war correspondent. It is owned by the War correspondent Ernie Pyle, center, with troops in 1944. Photo republished from the National Archives with permission via the National Newspaper Association. SEE PYLE, PAGE 8
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