Since its establishment, the city of Greensburg has never had an official flag to wave proudly in the bright blue skies and greet visitors to the town.
When the Greensburg 150th celebration began picking up steam and the committees started to really put things together, Mayor Gary Herbert decided that the absence of an official city flag was a matter that needed to be remedied.
According to Janet Dance and director of tourism Melanie Maxwell, Herbert decided to put in a request for an official city flag. He asked some of the 150th committee members to design it, and the result finally ended up in the mailbox at City Hall Tuesday.
The shipment of new city flags came in time to start preparing the community for the Sesquicentennial celebration that will begin in June and launch several events and festivities around the city. On Tuesday, the design took its maiden voyage atop the flagpole at City Hall, courtesy of Police Chief Brian Heaton who hoisted it to its temporary home.
Dance explained that she had researched the city’s meeting minutes, and discovered that the local government had never adopted an official flag for Greensburg. That is when the ball started rolling and the new flag process got underway.
Maxwell noted that the city flags will be made for sale, so businesses and other groups can donate money to the Sesquicentennial cause and then raise the flag and have them flutter in the breeze before, during and after the 150th.
The Greensburg City Council is set to vote on the adoption of the flag at the group’s next meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. on March 2.
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