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image by David Sigley, 12 July 2024
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A flag contest was launched on January 22, 2024. It was sponsered by the
city, along with the Overbrook Betterment Committee and Overbrook PRIDE. It
required all flags to be 11" wide and 5.6" tall, no seals or graphic images, and
limited to only three colors.
The event can be view here:
https://www.overbrookks.com/news-detail?item_id=19827
Flag design
contest produces winner
June 20, 2024
The Osage Herald
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Overbrook PRIDE and the Overbrook
betterment committee teamed together and applied for a $500 grant, which was
awarded by the Overbook Community Foundation, to have a city flag designed and
printed. With the grant, five flags were made. Two flag will be flown on the K.
and Autie Mae memorial flag poles located at the grade school and baseball
diamonds, one at the City Hall, one at the City Lake, and one was awarded to the
flag design winner, Brian Elliott.
Design ideas were open to the public.
Those participating were asked for a simple design that would include meaningful
symbolisms, with a limit of three colors. The winner would be awarded a free
flag, as well as $100 in prize money. Elliott donated his monetary prize back to
PRIDE.
There were 14 designed submitted. The submissions were voted on by
members of PRIDE on by members of PRIDE and the Betterment Committee, in which
the members had no idea who the designers were.
The colors blue and red in
Elliott's flag represent the USD 434 Santa Fe Trail school district, the white
diagonal line Symbolizes the Santa Fe Trail, the sunflower represents the Kansas
state flower, and the star is Overbrook's location in Kansas.
A photo of
the flag outside the city hall:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=874275628070079&set=a.456934276470885
A video at the city park:
https://www.facebook.com/WadeSisson/videos/864845318797336?idorvanity=2020140378016485
David Sigley, 12 July 2024