{"id":73700,"date":"2019-06-24T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=73700"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T12:18:37","slug":"flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Day ceremony held at the Owego Elks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Owego Elks of Lodge 1039 held its annual Flag Day ceremony where flags of our nation\u2019s past are represented and their evolutions witnessed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With help from Boy Scout Troop 38, each flag was presented and paired with music as Lodge President Steve Gregory, along with other Elks, read the flags\u2019 histories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Day ceremony held at the Owego Elks\" class=\"wp-image-73702\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag2-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag2-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag2-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>On Thursday, June 13, the Owego Elks held their Flag Day ceremony as the keepers of the flags. Each flag was presented with its history explained and celebrated. (Photo by Jacob Elsbree)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cElks Lodges across the country are expected to hold Flag Day ceremonies, as they are the keepers of the flag, said former Lodge President,\u201d Tim Sayers. Normally the celebration would be on the actual holiday, Friday, June 14, however, the Owego Elks were busy with their contributions to this year\u2019s Strawberry Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, the Elks and Scouts presented nine flags &#8211; three of them without the traditional stars and stripes. The Pine Flag of 1775 shows a green pine tree on a white field and represented the first inkling of freedom of the U.S. Next, after the well-recognized \u201cDon\u2019t Tread on Me\u201d yellow snake flag, the U.S. flag debuted its first 13 Stripes with white stars on a blue field. These remain consistent through the years with small changes in the number of stars and a brief stint of having 15 stripes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt helps reinforce our patriotism, community service, service to others, lending a helping hand when other people may not,\u201d Sayers said. \u201cIt\u2019s what we do here, and it\u2019s a part of what we do as a country. Flag Day is just another way for us to help remind everybody of what we are as Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sayers said that the Flag Day ceremony is also a way to honor everyone who serves citizens under its folds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With music throughout, Suzanne Newswanger sang the national anthem, \u201cYou\u2019re a Grand old Flag\u201d and \u201cGod Bless America.\u201d The ceremony then moved on to presenting awards to High School students who submitted Americanism Essays, where they explained what being American meant to them. Lodge President Steve Gregory also presented his former president, Zach Newswanger, an award in recognition of his work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Fronek has been an Elk for just over a year and stated this was her first Flag Day ceremony. Fronek said that the best part of the Elks for her is serving her community, whether through fundraising for local organizations or offering different services through the lodge. She found Thursday\u2019s ceremony moving as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was really beautiful, very touching and special, and I actually learned a lot about the different flags of our country; I didn\u2019t realize we had so many and what they meant.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Owego Elks of Lodge 1039 held its annual Flag Day ceremony where flags of our nation\u2019s past are represented and their evolutions witnessed.&nbsp; With&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Flag Day ceremony held at the Owego Elks - Owego Pennysaver Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flag Day ceremony held at the Owego Elks - Owego Pennysaver Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Owego Elks of Lodge 1039 held its annual Flag Day ceremony where flags of our nation\u2019s past are represented and their evolutions witnessed.&nbsp; With...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Owego Pennysaver Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Owego-Pennysaver-49179420591\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-24T12:30:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-25T12:18:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"6000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"4000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"psadvert\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"psadvert\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/\",\"name\":\"Flag Day ceremony held at the Owego Elks - Owego Pennysaver Press\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-24T12:30:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-25T12:18:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/#\/schema\/person\/e03684194434956dfb61f5ffcbc19492\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2019\/06\/24\/flag-day-ceremony-held-at-the-owego-elks\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2019\/06\/Flag1.jpg\",\"width\":6000,\"height\":4000,\"caption\":\"Boy Scouts from Troop 38 Presented America\u2019s flags on Thursday\u2019s Flag Day ceremony presented by the Owego Elks. 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