Locally-made flags to be flown for Commonwealth Day
Nearly 60 flags will be flown from the Weighbridge mast on Monday to celebrate this year’s Commonwealth Day – and all the flags have all been made by a local flag maker.
Rose Yates of Sarnia Flags made the first in around 2011 and has been replacing them whenever needed ever since.
She is currently in the process of making seven new ones.
‘Flags do wear out with the weather and sometimes the designs change and they need to be updated,’ she said.
‘We also had quite a few stolen in 2014.’
The annual event takes place at the Weighbridge roundabout on Monday 11 March at 7.45am.
Guernsey Sea Cadets will raise the last of the 56 flags of Commonwealth member countries and the Commonwealth flag itself on the 32-metre mast.
Guernsey Royal Commonwealth Society president Darren Vogel said he wanted to invite people from all Commonwealth countries living locally to participate.
‘This year we particularly wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate Bangladesh, the third-largest member country, and its contribution to the Commonwealth and the Bailiwick,’ he said.
‘This year the ceremony will be followed by a light Bangladeshi-themed breakfast kindly provided by the team at Dhaka at a very reasonable price.’
Dhaka will be opening early specifically for the RCS and Commonwealth Day.
Anyone interested in attending the breakfast should email djv@gti.gg as places are limited.
