Flag Display Project

This excellent fund-raising project involves selling $30 per year subscriptions to individuals and businesses in the McAlester area. Some subscribers have paid to have a large number of these Flags displayed in the center median park of Carl Albert Parkway in downtown McAlester. Our club provides a large United States flag, on a 10-foot wooden pole, which is installed in a metal tube sunk into the ground. Rotarians sell the Flag Display subscriptions, install the metal tubes in the ground (the tubes are capped when the flag pole is not being used), and insert the flagpoles into the tubes for six (6) days each year. The Flag Display days are McAlester's Armed Forces Day (usually the first Saturday in May), Memorial Day (last Monday in May), Flag Day (June 14th), Independence Day (the 4th of July), Labor Day (first Monday in September) and Veterans' Day (November 11th, formerly known as Armistice Day from World War I). Dedicated McAlester Rotarians sacrifice part of their own holidays to put up the Flags around town around daybreak and then take the Flags down around sunset on the designated days. For information about subscribing yourself, contact any McAlester Rotarian or send an e-mail to the Webmaster. Rotarians George Lampton and Angie Nelson lead this project for our Club.

One of the many flags on Kinkead Road in McAlester

Another of the flags on Kinkead Road

Some of the many flags sponsored by Rotarians and others in the community for placement in the beautiful landscaped median of Carl Albert Parkway (U.S. 270 Highway in McAlester)

More flags at residences in McAlester

Rotarians Joe Butts (left) and Shirley Way (kneeling on the right) installing one of the nearly 200 flags Rotarians handle six holidays each year.