Phyllis Anderson shows off the T-shirt that has her winning city slogan, “The City With Spirit,” before the Cleveland City Council on Monday.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The winner of the city slogan contest came to the Cleveland City Council on Monday to pick up her $1,000 prize.
Her winning slogan is “The City With Spirit.”
Phyllis Anderson, a Cleveland Middle School teacher, also received one of the first T-shirts with the slogan printed on it, alongside a picture of the Cherokee Chieftain sculpture.
“It literally came to me in the middle of the night,” Anderson said. “So I got up and wrote it.”
Hers was the only entry out of 1,827 with exactly those words.