T-L Photo/JOSIE BURKHART Brookside Village Council members discuss school spirit banners, paving roads and permits submitted during a Tuesday evening meeting.

BROOKSIDE — Banners aiming to create more school spirit will be put up around the village by the Brookside Volunteer Fire Department and Logotech before the first home football game, according to discussion during a Tuesday evening council meeting.

The banners — which say “Welcome to Bulldog Country,” “Bridgeport Bulldogs” and “Home of the Bulldogs” — will be placed throughout the village. They will be up from the beginning to the end of the football season, with banners eventually put up for each season, including winter, spring and summer.

Logotech of Bethesda is the company completing the project of making the 30 banners for the village and putting them up with help from the fire department.

“I think it’s a good idea,” said Paula Curtin, council member. “I think it’s great. I mean you go through Shadyside, Ferry, all those places, they all have them.”

The fire department also started its monthly fundraiser raffle Aug. 12. Only 200 tickets will be sold at $7 a ticket. Some of the items to be raffled include a power scrubber, air inflator, foaming sprayer, car wash bucket and portable power station.

“What we’re doing it for is to offset the price of the desks and stuff like that that’s only going to the firehouse,” Fire Chief Allan Ketzell III said. “We roughly make about 500 or so a raffle. We always give out half of what we bring in.”

Fiscal Officer Amber Berry discussed the five permits applications submitted, which included one from Window World to remove and replace two windows at 20 Brookside Ave., one for 18 Brookside Ave. to remove the driveway and replace it, one by the Bridgeport Church of God for a metal garage, one by Goliath Realty for siding and paint on 1 Locust Ave. and another from Window World for 12 Alexander St. to remove and replace six windows. Council unanimously approved a motion to issue the permits.

Berry also read an application to use the event hall at 857 National Road for professional wrestling webcasts and seminars, which council also approved.

Council member Roger Stewart discussed the operators on the maintenance staff replacing the impeller on a pump at the digester building. He also mentioned that contractor Border Patrol started working on the 49th Street pump station in Bellaire.

Stewart also said they hired a pre-treatment fog manager by the name of David Richard Curtis Watkins.

The members also discussed streets to be paved in Brookside, such as Walnut Avenue or Overbrook Drive.

“There’s not much bad that goes on here,” Kurner said.