This year’s ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, which is Flag Day, at the Grapevine Gazebo in the 300 block of South Main Street. Cookies and lemonade will be served at the end of the ceremony.
Steve Stinson, Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau board member, will serve as master of ceremonies for the event. The National Athem will be sung by William Lain, a Grapevine police officer.
Boy Scout Troop 700, based in Grapevine, will raise the U.S. flag during the ceremony.
A member of the Daughters of the American Revolution will give an invocation. The Grapevine Veterans of Foreign Wars will also participate.
The Grapevine Rotary Club, which places American flags along Main Street each year for many holidays — and has done so for years — will also participate in the ceremony.
"Like everything we do, we start doing it, then we look back and say, 'Golly, it’s been 25 years, we think,’" said Grapevine Rotary Club President Don Davis of placing flags on Main Street.
Davis said this ceremony will honor the city, the country and the American flag.
"We are honored," he said. "It is a big deal. Our whole club is involved."
Davis’ term as president of the club will end this month.
Melburn Sibley, an associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Grapevine, will become the club’s new president on July 1.
The flag of the United States developed from earlier flags flown over this country. Today’s flag has 13 stripes — seven red and six white — and 50 white stars on a blue field — five rows of six and four rows of five. The stripes represent the 13 original colonies that formed the United States of America. The stars on the flag represent the states.
Lisa McCowan, Grapevine C&VB media relations manager, said everyone is invited to attend ceremony.
See www.GrapevineTexasUSA.com for information about Grapevine attractions and events.
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day.
In August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an act of Congress.