Bay Legion Post to retire flags

In observance of Flag Day, June 6, Bay Village American Legion Post #385 will conduct a flag retirement ceremony prior to their monthly meeting on Friday, June 11. Members of the Post will conduct an official Flag Retirement Ceremony and retire the flags with full military honors. 

Anyone with an old, faded or torn American flag is encouraged to put the flag into a plastic bag and hang it on the doorknob of the Legion Post prior to June 11. The Post is located at 695 Cahoon Road, just north of the White Oaks Restaurant. 

The Post conducts these ceremonies twice a year, once on Flag Day and once on Veterans Day in November. In 2009 the post retired over 500 flags. If you wish to attend the ceremony, it starts at 6:30 p.m. 

Jim Potter is the American Legion Post Americanism Chairman and lives in Bay Village.