06.10
LaFayette City Council will meet at City Hall, 7:30 tonight.
Saturday night around 10:30 a man walking along the LaFayette bypass was apparently hit by a car and killed. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a body under a sheet for a long while afterwards as GSP investigated the accident.
News reports name the victim as 29-year-old Shawn Bryan. The driver isn’t likely to be charged since Mr. Bryan was in the middle of the highway after dark when he was hit.
This is the third traffic fatality in Walker County in about eight days.
Victim from the previous fatality from an accident in Catlett last Friday has been identified as mother-of-three Tandi Wilson, age 23. Another minor accident Saturday on Hwy. 27 at the Catoosa/Walker line in front of Fieldstone Farms thankfully had no fatalities; people involved in that two-vehicle crash were able to walk away afterwards.
A downtown logo contest sponsored by LaFayette Downtown Development Authority received 44 entries, but only two of the submissions were actual logos – the rest are slogans. Contest winner will get $50 and “bragging rights.”
The LU contest for a city logo, which offered a prize of $0, got five or six entries. The LU contest winner is below:
(Other entries here.)
- “Overall, [DDA Director] Williams is happy with the public participation in the effort. ‘A professional firm, for this kind of thing, would be very, very expensive,’ he said. ‘Some cities spend $50,000 to $75,000.'”
Which is why LU said they wouldn’t get much response. Nobody who can do a real logo wants to do one for an insulting fifty dollars. They could have made the prize $500 and actually gotten some participation.
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