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Contributed Photo East Ridge residents voted for this flag in a month-long online voting process. The flag was designed by Vice Mayor Tom Card, but voting was blind, so no one was aware a city official designed it.
East Ridge residents have spoken, and the new city flag will be flying by this fall.
Sixty-six percent of online voters chose a design created by Vice Mayor Tom Card, though voters were not aware who designed each of the 18 potential flags, said City Manager William Whitson.
More than 250 people voted in the month-long online process. The city hired an outside auditor to make sure only one vote per citizen was allowed and that each vote came from legitimate city residents.
The flag will be featured at a planned $1 million redesign of Exit 1 on Interstate 75 in East Ridge and will fly along with the U.S. and Tennessee flags, Mr. Card said.
The banner features the city seal in a field of blue along with orange, red, white and blue panels and four stars, Mr. Card said. The orange and blue panel represents the city’s colors and three stars represents Tennessee’s three grand divisions.
A solitary star represents East Ridge’s motto “Gateway to Tennessee.”
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Times Free Press.
Adam Crisp covers education issues for the Times Free Press. He joined the paper's staff in 2007 and initially covered crime, public safety, courts and general assignment topics. Prior to Chattanooga, Crisp was a crime reporter at the Savannah Morning News and has been a reporter and editor at community newspapers in southeast Georgia. In college, he led his student paper to a first-place general excellence award from the Georgia College Press Association. He earned ...
Wow. Shocking. This flag is hideous and should not be used for anything but cleaning a floor or a car engine. This flag is sure to deter even more people from East Ridge. Terrible.
I expected it to have a picture of King Curtis, wearing a crown and carrying his Royal Scepter made of broken promises and cow patties.
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