{"id":20107,"date":"2024-09-26T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=20107"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:37:11","slug":"decatur-flag-idea-goes-to-front-burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/decatur-flag-idea-goes-to-front-burner\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur flag idea goes to front burner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An idea brought forth several months ago by a member of Decatur City Council was tossed onto a front burner at the latest meeting of Decatur City Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Decatur has never had its own flag, but that oversight is likely to be corrected next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The matter was brought to council at its latest meeting by Councilwoman Jenny Bower-Shultz \u2013 who suggested having a city flag some time back \u2013 Mary Montgomery Byer and Councilman Scott Murray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowers-Shultz said the trio has had a couple of meetings to try to come up with a plan for a flag \u201cwhich would unify our community, which represents our city, and reflects what we want for our future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan calls for having a contest in which people would submit designs for a city flag. The contest would continue for several months, then a committee would be selected to narrow the designs to five, eventually having a winner early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will have guidelines and lesson plans for teachers,\u201d Montgomery noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the group was asking council to provide $1,500 from its promotional fund to finance some expenses and provide a prize for the winner. Approval was quickly granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a new game. We&#8217;re figuring it out as we go,\u201d Bower-Shultz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com An idea brought forth several months ago by a member of Decatur City Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-20107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20108,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20107\/revisions\/20108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}