What if you had to pick a mascot for a local civic issue?

We found out yesterday (thanks to a front page article in the News & Observer) that the city of Raleigh is incapable of picking out a decent logo for water conservation. Today, the N&O announced a contest asking readers to submit ideas for a mascot that could represent local civic issues. Here are some examples the N&O offered to get us thinking:

Invent a mascot for a civic issue in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill or elsewhere and send it to us. Here are a few examples to get you going:

* Terry the Central Raleigh Teardown
* Gus the Wake Reassignment Bus
* Norv the Blueprint, emblem of the Carolina North planning process.
* Crumbles, the DOT Rubble

This is a pretty clever way to engage readers. I’m glad to see the N&O redeeming itself after running the raindrop mascot on the front page yesterday. In fact, that’s probably the reason they ran that ugly thing on the front page, just so they could promote their contest today.

Hmmm. Wonder what a good mascot would be for Ginny from the Blog?