Residents turned out in high numbers on Town Meeting Day and cast their ballots for a town flag that will be dedicated on June 24th, the 250th Founding Celebration of Monkton. The winning flag was designed by Linda Reynolds, a Mt. Abraham Union High School art teacher who has been teaching for 34 years. Her design which depicts Monkton’s distinctive landscape of farm fields, pond and hills garnered seventy per cent of the first choice vote.
“Nearly 89 per cent of the voters cast a vote for the winning flag. I’m amazed and thrilled that we came together so decisively around a single flag!” said Jonathan Corcoran who organized the contest for the Monkton Community Coffeehouse. “I was also struck at the level of participation – more than two-thirds of the people who voted on Town Meeting Day took part in the voting for the flag.”
All 34 flags that were entered into the contest will be posted to the Monkton Community Coffeehouse’s Facebook page and website (www.monktoncc.org) as well as to the Monkton Talk website (www.monktontalk.org) for viewing. Residents and friends of Monkton can order their own copy of the winning Monkton flag by contacting the Monkton Community Coffeehouse.
The Monkton Flag Project was funded by a community grant from Neat Repeats in Middlebury. The flag designs were digitized and prepared for exhibition by graphics designer Kevin Ruelle of Ruelle Design in Burlington.