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Bridge lighting ceremony set Friday
By TORI STILWELL
After almost 18 years, it's finally time to flip the switch on Butch Brown's bright idea.
The official lighting ceremony of the Natchez-Vidalia Mississippi River Bridge will be held Friday at 8:30 p.m. following a reception at the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center an hour before.
Brown, the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation and a Natchez native, said he got the idea for the lighting project while serving as the city's mayor.
"The bridge is a kind of art or sculpture," Brown said, whose two terms in Natchez lasted from 1992 to 2000. "The size and the longevity of life all lend to something artistic.
"Aesthetic lighting just adds so much to the character and the functionality of a bridge."
Brown said although Vidalia Mayor Hyram Copeland also became interested in the project, neither city had the funds necessary to finance the idea.
After rising to his department position in 2001, Brown said he decided to use part of the state's transportation enhancement funds to jump-start the project and help with its hefty price tag, an estimated $3 million.
"It's not an inexpensive thing," he said.
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