11.1.2022 - New Fall River Logo Contest - 6 Finalists Announced

first of all I want to thank everybody for uh joining us today at Government Center for this very important announcement we're going to be releasing the six logo design finalists who came from pool of uh 227 who came from everywhere Kentucky Indonesia elementary schools in Fall River Public Schools public high schools we got them from all over the place and it was very very very difficult for the

committee to nail it down to um these final six um the six worked with our graphic designer Josh Pereira he's been helping us with the project we brought in all of the finalists to show them their designs and maybe some little tweaks that we thought they might be uh able to do to make it a stronger presentation and they came out great I think that the public should weigh in on things like this and we're

definitely going to move forward with it the options are all right there and there are going to be so many places where you'll be able to vote it's going to be open till November 21. people can vote online go to fall riverma.org contest it'll be on all the social media sites we're going to be asking people to share it so that we can get a great cross-section of our community to weigh in on this very very

important decision I have about two or three favorites but as far as I'm concerned anyone that wins is fine with me because they all look very very classy and professional you can go in person to the lobby downstairs at the library or even the Viva pop-up store which is up at the corner of Columbia Street in South Main and you can also visit the contest webpage where you can see all the

designs in color with examples of what they're going to look like on our city banners what they could look like on a billboard what they could look like in an ad campaign that may help you with your decision all of that stuff is there which which is going to be very very important so that you make an informed decision on the best way to go with this logo it's this is not a long press conference

we just wanted to wheel them out so everybody had the same opportunity to see him um one of the panelists who uh Works closely with us in the city of Fall River on all of our events I'm going to let her come up and say a few words right now uh Patty Rigo from viva and Frack I'm gonna I'll go on my tippy toes hi um so thank you America again and um I

just want to First say I was really honored to be asked to be a part of the the logo panel committee um it really was a difficult um difficult task to narrow down as the mayor said of 227 entries and they were all just it was really beautiful to see pages and pages of things that represent Fall River in its best possible way iconic buildings to get an idea of what

residents and even people outside of the city think about the city and there were you know the obvious ones the bridge the gays but then there were just a lot of other little things and the the thought and the positive intentions that were put into it was really I think this exercise I think this contest is really just a wonderful way to celebrate that Fall River has an ever-changing identity

and we're evolving we have new you know people who are coming from other countries and it's time for us to to put a new a new logo out there and and celebrate you know the diverse City that we are and so we um what was supposed to be a one-hour meeting turned into a two-hour meeting because it really was so difficult for all of us and we had some great conversations and

um I think the amount of talent and the amount of thought that went into this is really great we really appreciate all the people who participated and my fellow panelists as well um I am really looking forward to seeing which one Rises to the top and I invite everybody to come and also vote at the thanks Miss event on November 12th which will be happening right outside of City Hall on Old Second Street we're going to

shut down Sullivan drive and it's a perfect time to celebrate and celebrate our voting process and also don't forget to vote I think it's tomorrow correct okay I already voted early so that's why I don't remember thank you very much the sixth sorry just it's next week um this is when the Voting is but you can vote downstairs right now I think that's still open voting I do want to

thank one of the person though um in in our office the special projects person Elena paveed she kind of shepherded the whole thing through and made sure we stayed on point and got this done um she's a key part of this whole project and she did a real nice job and I I do want to compliment her publicly on that um and secondly my vote is the same as

your vote I get one vote we're all going to have a say uh whoever wins as I said all six of them have certain qualities and characteristics that I like so we're not playing any favorites here and we just want people to get out there and vote and that would make it real special if we have a great cross-section from the city any questions how much money or what will the prize be

for the winner uh the winner will get 500 um we put that out there when we did the initial solicitation and uh like I said I hope it's uh it's well spent here let me ask you in conjunction with this the city is rebuilding the website any update on that uh we're moving along um where now I think we're down to the the permitting page is that kind of like

what we're working on now one of the big things is online pyramiding we want to make uh operations in the city of Fall River much easier for the residents and that's kind of like one of the things because when you do a permitting page it has to link to numerous departments uh the designs coming along this will be a key piece of it and that committee is also working very hard and uh very

diligently to get that done but that's moving too any time frame anybody got an idea Elena early next year how's that the marketing part was already really successful to be able to receive entrance from Kentucky and Indonesia well that's the internet some of them were coming in and I was like where is that from and one of them was so great I loved it because they didn't know the

name of the city they did their logo and called it falls River and I was like okay well that's I don't think that person's from Bedford Street or Whipple so that's good but it was it was good and um again it only gave you another uh designed to hold up and see what they were thinking and and some of them were excellent like I said we I am so so

thankful I was not on this committee to narrow it down to six because there were so many good ones that I was like I don't really want to be in there matter of fact I ran out of the room and I started making the picks because I didn't want to have anything to do with it um we'll try to finish this contest and we are going to do that but I'm not

gonna be going we're not going to go to we'll try we're going to try to make this something that we can see on envelopes and on a billboard and promote the city um we're we're pretty much done trying now it's going to be will do we will get things done