| Coke bottle
investment seems to be a good one By CAROLYN CARY
cccary@aol.com
The
investment is already paying off for local
residents who have bought commemorative Coke
bottles celebrating the town of Brooks.
Originally
sold at $8 each, the bottles are now selling on
the Internet at $25 each, it was reported during
a recent Town Council meeting.
The
Brooks Commemorative Coke Committee has now
turned over nearly $12,000 to the Recreation
Department for initial bottle sales, and the
department will now be selling the remaining
bottles at market value.
In
other business at the council meeting, State
Court Judge Fletcher Sams installed newly elected
Town Councilmen Dan Langford Jr., Post 5, and
Mike Hanson, Post 6. They ran unopposed in the
November 1999 election.
Hanson
was elected as mayor pro tempore.
Post
4 also was up for reelection, but the only person
to qualify was determined to be ineligible by
living in Brooks three weeks shy of a year. A
special called election will be conducted March
21.
In
other agenda items, council chose Jerry Lynch to
handle exterior and interior cleaning of the
Brooks Town Hall buildings. He is to be paid $10
an hour for all work on cleaning interiors and
any outside groundskeeping.
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