The flag was at half-staff at Lula City Hall on Monday and a memorial wreath hung on the building’s front door, stark reminders this small town on the Hall-Banks county line was deep in mourning for one of its most energetic leaders. “We’re still in the we-can’t-believe-it-happened phase,” said Karen Bowling, owner of Lula Pharmacy at 6102 Banks St. From the pharmacy to the collectibles shop on Main Street, residents and businesspeople were still expressing shock over Vicky Chambers’ death following a Jan. 10 crash. It wasn’t just that the longtime city councilwoman who pushed so hard for improvements to the historic rail town was taken so suddenly from them, although that’s part of the pain, but that Chambers appeared to be improving in Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s intensive care unit and that she would be OK, even though a long recovery was likely ahead, friends said.