By Melanie Patterson

The North Jefferson News



The Town of Kimberly wants a slogan.

Town officials are getting students into the act of creating a slogan and logo for Kimberly by sponsoring a contest.

Councilman Lowell Holland is organizing the contest. He said that students at Bryan Elementary, North Jefferson Middle and Mortimer Jordan High schools will be participating.

Holland said that City Hall workers will narrow down the entries and residents will vote on them during the town’s first May Day celebration, which will be held on May 1 at the Doss Ferry subdivision.

The winner and runners-up will receive U.S. Savings Bonds. The town council voted to spend $400 on the contest, which will cover prizes and the cost of printing and distributing fliers to the schools.

In other business, the council:

• changed the employment status of the city attorney, Charlie Waldrep, from temporary to permanent through July. The council also increased the monthly salaries of Judge Buddy Wise from $400 to $500; and of prosecutor Greg Pugliese and public defender Owen Roberts from $400 to $450. Mayor Ralph Lindsey said those salaries are paid out of court funds.

• voted to annex almost three acres at 2039 Bone Dry Road into the City of Kimberly

• heard that the Kimberly Web site is up and in its initial stages. Visit the site at www.kimberlyal.org

• heard that the Kimberly Senior Center is no longer available to be rented by the public

• heard that the public works department will work a four-day work week on a trial basis. The employees will work four 10-hour shifts Monday through Thursday

• heard that the Town of Kimberly will be receiving bids for repaving, sealing and striping the Town Hall parking lot

• heard that the Kimberly Community Action League will hold a roadblock on Feb. 28, 8:30 a.m. to noon, to collect donations. The donations will help fund the recent court battle against mining in Kimberly.