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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