
{"id":872,"date":"2007-09-06T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T23:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/09\/06\/maybe-not-so-grand-but-they%e2%80%99re-sticking-with-the-town-flag\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T23:32:54","slug":"maybe-not-so-grand-but-they%e2%80%99re-sticking-with-the-town-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/09\/06\/maybe-not-so-grand-but-they%e2%80%99re-sticking-with-the-town-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe not so grand, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sticking with the town flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/toc-flag-graphicrev.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/toc-flag-graphicrev.gif\" height=\"139\" width=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that old. Except in a few places, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not so high flying. And if you ask local artists, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that grand. But on Tuesday, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to keep the town flag as it is.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the town has a flag is not all that well known. Unlike Chapel Hill, which redesigned its flag several years ago and uses it extensively, the most visible evidence of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flag is at Town Hall, where it rests curled and obscured behind the Board of Aldermen at their meetings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until the town got a request from Carrboro High School to fly a copy of the flag over the school \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and then, shortly thereafter, a request by representatives of Winmore to place one at the entrance to that subdivision \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that a review of the design came up.<\/p>\n<p>At its meeting Tuesday at Town Hall, aldermen briefly studied whether to keep the current design or look for something new.<\/p>\n<p>The design features a white background with a seal in the middle with Town Hall, formerly the old Carrboro School, and the date of the chartering of Carrboro \u00e2\u20ac\u201d March 3, 1911 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d over it. The seal includes the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Town of Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153North Carolina.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The aldermen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debate \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as it was \u00e2\u20ac\u201d yielded one sentimental moment, when Jacquie Gist and Joal Hall Broun, the board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longest-serving members got up and unfurled the flag behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of those rare things Joal and I agree on,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gist said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We love our flag. We defend our flag.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Hall said people could drop the gold fringe if they wanted, but the flag should stay the same. The schoolhouse, she said, is emblematic of Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>While it has a strong sentimental value, members of the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arts community, many of whom didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the town even had a flag, said it could be a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry; it just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like our town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d poster artist Ron Liberti, who recently served on the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arts committee, said. With all of the artists in town, he said, the imagery could be a lot more descriptive of Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see something more going on,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Liberti said.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Helvey, a member of the town arts committee, said the bright orange and blue made it a little hard to look at.<\/p>\n<p>And while she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t object to it having Town Hall on it, the drawing, she said, could be a little more realistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see something more contemporary, but not sure what,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Got an idea for the town flag? Drop us a line and let us know what you think it should look like. Write to editor@carrborocitizen.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Staff Writer It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that old. Except in a few places, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not so high flying. And if you ask local artists, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that grand. But on Tuesday, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to keep the town flag as it is. 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