Scheller designs Fest T-Shirt

ODESSA — A former resident and professional graphic designer was the mastermind behind the design of this year’s Deutschesfest T-Shirt.

38-year-old Jesse Scheller, now of Spokane, created the logo that he called a “marriage” between Odessa’s wheat farming and German heritage and rock-style bands that frequent the Biergarten at Deutschesfest.

“We felt it met people right in the middle,” Scheller, who grew up on the family farm near town until 2006, said.

The shirt features the Fest logo with an eagle based from the Holy Roman Empire and German Nation. The eagle’s talons are grasping bushels of...