The Morden community development corporation's tourism committee has sifted out five options for the new city slogan.

Over 300 entries were submitted to the committee to choose from and they believe the following selections are representative of those entries.

CITY OF DISCOVERY
DIGGIN' IT SINCE 1882
DREAM. DISCOVER. DEVELOP.
HUB OF THE PEMBINA VALLEY
UNEARTH INSPIRATION

"It was fantastic to see such a big response to the call for submissions, and to see how creative and thoughtful a lot of the entries were," said Chaley Martens, marketing and communications coordinator for the City of Morden.

"This is supposed to a slogan that everybody can be proud of, everybody can identify with," said selection committee member, Peter Cantelon.

"One of the things we noticed was that the slogans fell into categories. You could easily put 20-50 into one category--similar sounding, similar type," Cantelon said.

From those five categories, these genuine submissions were chosen as the best of each grouping.

"Narrowing them down was not as difficult as you might imagine," said Cantelon, "Because you could create these silos that reflected the broader content of what was submitted."

Cantelon added that even some of the entries which had to be excluded based on the selection criteria, were humourous and showed creativity. One such submission was "Brucey McBruceface", which Cantelon said made him laugh.

Voting on the five options is open until 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 21. Ballots can be filled out online at mordenmb.com or picked up at the Morden civic centre.