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BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
 
Photo by Janet S. Spencer
Roger Childers, Town of Blacksburg public works director, is shown with his truck displaying a new town decal.
Blacksburg’s fleet of vehicles has new colorful decals incorporating the town’s history with a ray of sunshine.
Roger Childers, public works director, said utility, garbage, service, flatbed and pickup trucks operated by employees now display the new emblem.
“We wanted something that represents the town well,” he explained, noting the Iron City’s heyday as a railroad town.
The decals were designed by Airgrafx FX, a local company which won the bid and completed the work for $1,200.
Childers said the new decal adapted a train and sunshine prominently represented in a 20-year-old seal often used by the town.
Town Clerk Dell Bagwell said the pattern seal was developed in 1988 when the late Joe Hicks Whitener, who was a council member, and Gene McKown headed the Historic Committee for the town’s 100th anniversary.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Blacksburg Times.
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