The addition of two new elementary schools in St. Joseph comes with the addition of two new mascots.

“It’s once in a lifetime that you get an opportunity to do this,” said Carden Park Elementary School Principal Lacey Adams.

Both Carden Park Elementary and Oak Grove Elementary school have selected a mascot and school colors. Carden Park unveiled the Titans as its mascot during a school carnival last week.

“A Titan is a person that is of exceptionable importance and reputation,” said Adams.

Oak Grove’s new mascot are the Grizzlies.

“It’s a Grizzly that’s not too mean looking and not too nice looking,” said Oak Grove Principal Mike Otto. “Means we’re tough, kinda like the Oak Tree, like Oak Grove it’s wise, hardworking, we’re not afraid to tackle anything. We’re bearable, no pun intended.”

Community members and students at both schools took part in selecting their new mascot. Adams and Otto said committee members took mascot suggestions and then narrowed those results down to a handful of options for students to vote on.

“They voted the Titans by a landslide,” said Adams. “It won overall.”

School colors have also been selected for each school.

“Our school colors are blue and silver,” said Otto. “Our school is a feeder school to Central High School so we wanted the major big blue color with just the Royal Blue.”

Carden Park took a different approach to selecting school colors because it feeds into many different high schools.

“We were really trying to pick a color that didn’t align us with necessarily just one of the high schools,” said Adams. “To pick a color that no other public school in town has was really exciting.”

Students at Carden Park got to vote between orange or purple and purple won out.

Spirit wear including t-shirts will soon be available at Carden Park and is already available at Oak Grove.