Congratulations to our local Paint Iowa Beautiful grant award winners for Sac City! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-April 1, 2014 Des Moines--Diamond Vogel Paint and Keep Iowa Beautiful announced the grant awards for the 2014 Paint Iowa Beautiful program. The program provides free paint to a wide variety of public service projects throughout Iowa. The program is administered through Keep Iowa Beautiful with the paint provided by the Diamond Vogel Paint Company. Governor Branstad has signed a proclamation designating April as Keep Iowa Beautiful month and we are pleased to do our part by awarding paint to 63 community projects in Iowa, said Doug Vogel, Vice-President, Trade Marketing, of the Iowa based company. The partnership with Keep Iowa Beautiful allows Diamond Vogel Paint to assist and work with the many local volunteers that help build stronger Iowa communities. Gerald Schnepf, Executive Director of Keep Iowa Beautiful added, The Paint Iowa Beautiful program helps us increase our assistance to neighborhoods, communities, historic projects and other public service organizations in improving the attractiveness and beauty of our home areas. These projects definitely improve the beauty of Iowa, its countryside and its communities. -30- Keep Iowa Beautiful is a non-profit organization affiliated with Keep America Beautiful. Program efforts include litter reduction, public nuisance abatement and beautification programs. Diamond Vogel is an Iowa based, family owned company started in 1926 by Andrew Vogel. It serves 13 states with seven manufacturing facilities and over 60 service center outlets providing Architectural Finishes, Industrial and Original Equipment Finishes and Home Decorating Products. 2014 AWARD WINNERS The following is a listing of the 63 statewide award winners for the 2014 allocation of paint from the Diamond Vogel Paint Company. Community/Org.; Type of Project; Name of Contact Alden/City of; Swimming Pool; Janaan Harding Algona/City of; Fire station doors & railroad underpass; Jason Etnyre Algona/Kossuth County Fair; Grandstand; Sheri Dodds Bedford/Bedford Area Chamber; Main street buildings; Doug Mullen Blue Grass/Scott County YMCA; YMCA main lodge; Zach Klipsch Center Point; Park splash pad; Molly Stuelke Cedar Rapids/Indian Creek Nature Center; Restoration of two sheds; Jean Wiedenheft Cedar Rapids/Ushers Ferry Historic Village; Train depot; Ann Cejka Cherokee/City Parks and Recreation; Fountain backdrop; Connie Ladwig Clarinda/Glenn Miller Birthplace Society; Glenn Miller birthplace home; Marvin Negley Correctionville/Correctionville Golf Club; Golf club-sheds & pump house; Scott Knaack Danbury/City of and Community Club; Four houses; Jennie Lu McCartney Davenport/Hilltop Campus Village; Hilltop Campus Village, Raphaels Emporium; Scott Tunnicliff Dayton/City Park & Recreation Board; Two park shelters, jail house and street light poles; Karen Hanse Decorah/Vesterheim Norwegian Museum; Jacobson Farmstead; Steve Johnson Dubuque/Washington Neighborhood Dev.; Repaint round-about mural and a new street round-about; Megan Star Eagle Grove/Eagle Grove Veterans Tower; Grain elevator mural; Daryl Watts Eddyville/City of; Park Shelter and stage in; Doug Greenlee Eldora/Hardin Co. 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Society Fairgrounds; Civilian Conservation Corps/Prisoner of War hall; Becky rose Elkader/City of; City park-Floral Hall; Jennifer Cowsert Fairfield/Fairfield Beautification Commission; Downtown city park buildings; Nancy Horras Farragut/Hometown Pride Committee; Two homes, softball bleachers and Freedom Corner/main street; Becki Sickman Fonda/Hometown Pride Committee; Garage (low income); Phyllis Menke Forest City/Winnebago Historical Society; Heritage Park-fire station and barber shop; Jim Oulman Fort Madison/Fort Madison Main Street; Avenue H buildings; Amy Hull Sidney/Fremont County Fair Board; Fair grounds buildings and rodeo arena and bleachers; Mandy Maher Gilmore City/Hometown Pride Committee; Local cafe; Amy Ford Hamburg/Hometown Pride Committee; Downtown & city park; Sheryl Owen Harris/City & Harris Community Builders; Welcome sign, city park shelter, restrooms & flower boxes; Robin Baumgarn Hanlontown/City of; City park shelter and storage building; Sharon Rice Havelock/Hometown Pride Committee; Mural; Cindy ONeall Hawarden/Big Sioux River Historical Society; Historical house and 1918 city hall; Tim Kurth Humboldt/Humboldt Co. Historical Association; 1941 barn; Sandra Back Imogene/Sons & Daughters of Imogene; Welcome sign, softball bleachers and downtown building; Rebecca Castle Lake City/Calhoun Co. 4-H Council & Park Bd.; Park playground equipment; Jill Mims La Porte City/Hawkins Memorial Library; Library interior; Jolene Kronschnable Laurens/Hometown Pride Committee; Two park shelters, restrooms and gazebo; Barb Smith Le Mars/City of and Public Works; City park concession and storage buildings; Brad Eppling Le Mars/Chamber and Main Street; Alley art project-mural; Mary Reynolds Le Mars/Le Mars YMCA; YMCA bathroom floors; Krista Nilles Madrid/Iowa 4-H Foundation; 4-H Center-four buildings; Robert Vincent Marcus/City of; Two buildings in a horse pasture near the entrance of town; Bev Alesch Marshalltown/County 4-H & Youth Development; Exhibit building at the Central Iowa Fair; Caleb Carver Missouri Valley/Health Promotion Strategies; Three store front facades; Brent Saron Montrose/Owned by the City; Gymnasium-exterior; Shelly Weirather Montrose/Montrose Riverfront, Inc; Agriculture elevator office building (Hunold Heritage Center); Pat Marshall Northwood/Worth Co. Community of Promise; Community center building; Sarah Bruce Orient/City Public Works Dept.; Legion Hall, meal site and information booth; Ellen Pool Oskaloosa/Mahaska Community Rec. Foundation; Football/baseball storage building; Sherry Vavra Palmer/Hometown Pride Committee; Two welcome signs; Amanda Korte Percival/Hometown Pride Committee; Fire station; Angele Sheldon Pocahontas/Hometown Pride Committee; County fair horse barn; Gary Vrba Riverside/City of; Four downtown buildings; Rusty Rogerson Riverton/Hometown Pride Committee; Park picnic table and; Carol Jennings Rolfe/Hometown Pride Committee; Home (low income); Glenn Markley Sac City/Chamber-Main Street; 33 main street store fronts; Brandy Ripley Sac City/Sac Community Center; Gym; Ashley Miller Sac County/Barn Quilts of Sac County; Repaint barn quilts; Harold Peyton Shelby/City of...Paint Shelby Beautiful; Senior Center garage/storage and city hall; Karen Schlueter Story City/Chamber of Commerce; Carousel renovation; John Hall Varina/Hometown Pride Committee; Mural on city park shed and entrance sign to city; Stephanie Archer Waverly/City of; Two park shelters and 24 picnic tables; Tab Ray Waverly/Bremer County Fair; Log cabin at the fair grounds; Nylene Geerts
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:57:40 +0000
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