Flag will be back soon

<< Back to archives | Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Note:Fag will back flying sometime the week of March 22 to 26. 

You may have noticed - the flagpole is empty.  The winch and cable system for raising and lowering the flag got tangled inside the pole last week.  And the flag was stuck at half mast for several days.  Yesterday, with the generous help from Zender Volvo Rents in Ferndale and their cherry picker, we were able to get the flag and take it down.  And then a group of us Fairhaven business folks got the winch out of the pole so we can now fix it.  It will require a new 200 foot braided steel cable and some cleaning.  Whew. 

This 100 foot tall flagpole is a community treasure but is also serious business.  The flags that fly need repairs and new hemming several times a year.  The Old Fairhaven Association has taken on the responsibility of maintaining it all and raising and lowering the flag in respect to fallen service members.  It is dedicated to our Veterans and dates back to 1987 and their efforts then to install the first pole.  And then it dates back to 1884 and Dirty Dan Harris himself who put up a 100 foot pole about this spot.  We value our history and our flag.

Some thanks are in order. First is Zenders in Ferndale for discounting much of their fee for this tall cherry picker and to Steve Denton and Mike DeRosa the operators.  Without it and them we cannot get 50 feet up the pole.  Thanks to Stephanie Johnson, the president of the Association for helping organize the rescue yesterday and helping untangle the mess.  Thanks to Constantine Papadakis of Dirty Dan Harris Steakhouse, Brad Imus of Jacaranda Development and Bob Currie for showing up and doing the work.  Now we will get new cable, clean the winch, retrieve one of our repaired flags from storage and schedule the cherry picker out here again - so we can thread the new cable through the pulley at the top and have our flag flying proudly again.  If you want to help, the Association has a flag account and we go through a few hundred dollars a year maintaining the flags and gear. 

The pink color scheme?  The Zenders donate part of the fees from this lift to breast cancer research. Cool folks.

Steve Denton, left, and Mike DeRosa about to go up in the cherry picker to get the flag.  Thanks guys.  - John Servais

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