Wapello is a Keep Iowa Beautiful and Diamond Vogel Paint grant award winner this year for the Paint Iowa Beautiful Program. The program provides free paint to a variety of service projects across Iowa. The Louisa County Historical Society will receive the paint for the school house, out house and a storage shed in Wapello. In it’s 14 years, the program has awarded over 8,922 gallons of paint for 676 community projects in the state.