Show Your Bicentennial Pride With A Green Bow

Westlake homes and businesses are turning green this fall as the citywide bicentennial celebrations ramp up. The Westlake Historical Society is encouraging everyone to put up a green bow to show Westlake pride during the last few months of Westlake's 200th birthday.

"It actually just came to me one day," said Westlake Historical Society President Lysa Stanton. "I was trying to think of something all the residents and businesses could participate in— something simple and yet meaningful."

Any kind of bow in any shade of green can be included, and while the historical society is suggesting mailboxes or business signs as an ideal place, you can put them anywhere.

"Some people, like condos, don't have mailboxes, so some are putting them on wreaths, some on trees, some on doors— however people want to get it out there," Stanton said.

The historical society will have green bows on all of their fall decorations this year, and Stanton said she can see green bows popping up all over town.

If you put up a green bow, send a photo to the historical society at westlakehistory@yahoo.com. The best entries will be put up on the historical society website and turned into a commemorative poster. According to Stanton, the poster will be out late this year or in early 2012.