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The town of Brownsville (Texas) has a flag. Jeff Raymond reports in "The Brownsville Herald", 25 June 2006: "A Fort Worth reservist and his San Benito buddy have brought a little bit of Brownsville to the unlikeliest of places: Camp Fallu-jah, Iraq. Brownsville native Petty Officer 2nd Class Margarito Gonzalez asked a relative to get a city of Brownsville flag and send it to the military base in Iraq’s volatile Sunni Triangle. [...] Gonzalez’ brother, J.J., an assistant football coach at Rivera High School, asked the city for the flag and sent it on its journey.
Ivan Sache, 26 June 2006
From www.burkburnett.org/government/council/minutes/01/min012901special.htm
"The Board of Commissioners of the City of Burkburnett, Texas met in a special called meeting on Monday, January 29, 2001...... ...... Item 2. Mike Slye, City Manager introduced Nita Lax to the Commissioners. He stated Mrs. Lax has been working on a city flag and is here to present it tonight.
Mrs. Lax presented a drawing of the flag she designed. The background color is black, lettering in white for 1907 (year Burkburnett was founded) and gold
lettering for the city name. After much discussion, a motion was made by Commissioner Mike Tugman, seconded by Commissioner Matt Patterson to have the flag made professionally with Mrs. Lax overseeing the exact details and colors. Motion carried unanimously.
The Commissioners thanked Mrs. Lax for the time she spent creating the flag."
From http://www.burkburnett.org/government/council/minutes/01/min041601commish.htm
"The Board of Commissioners of the City of Burkburnett, Texas met in a regular called meeting on Monday, April 16, 2001... .... Item 19. Mike Slye, City Manager presented the new city flag to the Commissioners. He stated that Nita Lax had designed the flag and had done an excellent job"
Dov Gutterman, 8 December 2002
At http://www.dublintexas.com/information/park2_small.jpg there was a photo of three flags. The photo is quite dark, but by adding some brightness it
reveals a green flag with white device (shamrock?) offset to the hoist. Here is a brighter clip from the photo.
Dov Gutterman, 14 December 2002
Lakeway's flag is the logo or seal and inscription on white, as seen on a photo of the flag at www.lakeway.org/_borders/lakeway_cover1.jpg.
Dov Gutterman, 8 December 2002
The city flag is the city logo (a large red stylized L and small blue Texas map) and can be seen at www.ci.lancaster.tx.us/images/topbanner.gif.
Dov Gutterman, 9 December 2002
From www.texnews.com/texas97/flag101697.html, Thursday, October 16, 1997:
City Council refuses to adopt city's historic first seal as city flag
Officials in this Hill Country city thought it would be a good idea to honor the town's history with a flag. But just what exactly should go on the flag has become an issue between members of the town's German and Hispanic communities. Because of the dilemma, the city was unable to adopt its historic first seal as the official city flag on Monday. "It really was a Catch-22," Mayor Jan Kennady said, adding that she received 34 phone calls on the issue before Monday's meeting.
The New Braunfels Historic Landmark Commission came up with the idea to adopt a city flag after visitors from Europe asked if the city had a flag to sell as a souvenir, a common practice in Germany. The commission unanimously adopted a design based on the seal used on the emigrant contracts issued to the first German settlers in 1844 and 1845. The seal included a lone star, which stands for the Republic of Texas, and a bundle of arrows, symbolizing the presence of Indians on the settled land and the phrase "Verein zum Schutz Deutscher Einwandrer in Texas." The phrase translates to "Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas."
Hispanics lived in the area before the Germans arrived, said resident Cristina Aguilar Friar. She said Hispanics helped town founder Prince Carl of Solms
gather the immigrants at the Texas coast and bring them to New Braunfels. Despite the opposition to the design from Aguilar Friar and others, the
commission presented its original design to the City Council. "The Historic Landmark Commission was appalled and amazed over the furor over the proposed city flag," chairman Carol Belton told the City Council.
The issue died when no council member made a motion on the issue.
located by Dov Gutterman, 23 December 2002
According to www.ci.plainview.tx.us the city flag was adopted on 5 Febuary 1973.
Dov Gutterman, 9 December 2002
