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image by Masao Okazaki, 22 July 2019
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The city held a flag contest and chose this as the winner.
http://www.sweetwaterreporter.com/content/winning-flag-design-unfurled
Thursday, April 12, 2018
The winning municipal flag design was revealed
at this week’s regular City Commission meeting. The winning entry was submitted
by Trey Jimenez, an 8th grade student at Sweetwater Middle School. He is an Art
III student. He is the son of Junior and Becky Jimenez, brother to Sweetwater HS
grad Ashleigh Jimenez. Jimenez explains his design this way:
"The horizontal bar at the bottom half of the flag is a representation of the
general beginning of Sweetwater’s prosperity when the tracks of The Texas and
Pacific Railway reached Sweetwater in 1881. The single star at the top of the
flag represents the idea of the popular sovereignty. When put into words it
means that the local government is governed by the will of the people of
Sweetwater. The star shows as well that the people of Sweetwater are united as
one and are undivided when confronting the issues that face the City. The curved
line beneath the singular star represents the snake, of course, which annually
generates revenue and prosperity for the City of Sweetwater since the founding
of the Rattlesnake Roundup in 1958."
The attached image is the final
version of the flag, which is posted on the city's website:
http://www.cityofsweetwatertx.com
Masao Okazaki, 22 July 2019
image located by Paul Bassinson, 23 January 2020
Source:
http://www.cityofsweetwatertx.com/
Paul Bassinson, 23 January 2020