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published: Friday, November 06, 2009

Sebring adopts centennial logo

By ED BALDRIDGE

ed.baldridge@newsun.com

SEBRING -- The Sebring City Council made the upcoming centennial celebration official last Monday night when it adopted the logo and set up an official committee.

Scheduled for Oct. 13-24, 2012, the council got a jump on making sure that the preparations were "official" and the progress was made towards the 11-day celebration planned around the city's 100th birthday.

"We'd like to have some money for this," said Sebring's mayor George Hensley. "Could we make a note to budget for this at the right time?"

The council chose Hensley and City Clerk Kathy Haley to serve as official members of the Centennial Committee, which makes future meetings public and under Florida's open government rules.

"It also reminds other groups that this is an official city celebration," Hensley said in response to concerns by organizer Allen C. Altvater III about unsanctioned Web sites or other information already appearing on the Internet.

"We hope to get the civic organizations involved in this," Altvater said.

Altvater, of Lake Placid, is the vice president of the Sebring Historical Society and the grandson of Sebring historian Allen C. Altvater Sr., for whom the Allen C. Altvater Cultural Center is named.

The Sebring Historical Society plans to publish a 100 years of Sebring book along with the celebration.