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The Huntington slogans are in and now it's your turn
to vote for the winner... The response to last issue’s column about coming up with a new
slogan for the city of Huntington provoked an honest-to-goodness outpouring
of responses. I’ve never provoked an outpouring before. It was
pretty cool. This proved conclusively that you DO read this column, which
complete disproves publisher “Cap’n Jack” Houvouras’ contention
that the column only exists to soak up excess ink from the ad on the
inside back cover In all seriousness, it was remarkable. We received hundreds of e-mails,
calls, and letters, coverage on WSAZ-TV News, and a stack of your own
suggestions. So Cap’n Jack and I have devised a cunning plan. We
will list a bunch of the suggestions on our website www.huntingtonquarterly.com and let you vote online for your favorite. The ones that get the most
votes will be officially presented to Mayor David Felinton and Chamber
of Commerce President Marc Bugher for their consideration. Your suggestions have fallen into two distinctions:
the serious and the not-so-serious. HUNTINGTON: THE USER FEE CITY!
HUNTINGTON: ALSO KNOWN AS ‘LITTLE DETROIT’
HUNTINGTON: THE BYRD’S NEST
HUNTINGTON: THE CITY OF WIDE STREETS AND NARROW MINDS And my personal favorite... HUNTINGTON; HOME OF MARSHALL UNIVERSITY…OH, AND SOME OTHER
STUFF. Marshall figured prominently in a number of the serious suggestions
as well... WE ARE HUNTINGTON. WE ARE MARSHALL.
HUNTINGTON: HAVE YOU ‘HERD’ OF US?
WE ARE HUNTINGTON. THE HOME OF MARSHALL. The feeling of ‘home’ was featured in some... HUNTINGTON: YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME
COME HOME TO HUNTINGTON
HUNTINGTON: A TOWN YOU CAN COME HOME TO
HUNTINGTON: FEELS LIKE HOME And some focused on the positive features of the city... HUNTINGTON: YOUR GATEWAY TO HEAVEN
HUNTINGTON: YOUR GATEWAY TO MOUNTAIN FUN
HUNTINGTON: COME GROW WITH US
HUNTINGTON: GOLDEN YESTERDAYS, GREATER TOMORROWS And some took an existing concept and spun it a new way... HUNTINGTON: WE ARE THE JEWEL CITY Those are a few of what we’ve received. These and more will be
on the website, and you can probably send in a suggestion or two of your
own, if you like. But please visit the website and let us know what YOU
think. Unless all that excess ink from that ad has covered me up, and you can’t
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