Memorial Day is Monday May 26. On Monday May 20 we will begin the 2025 Rotary Flag Project deployment. The process should be complete by Friday May 23. We need volunteers to deploy the flags. Many of you have helped in the past and your services will be needed again. But I also hope we can get some new volunteers this year, so I am contacting all members.
The task involves being part of two person teams that deliver the flags from our warehouse to our customers. We use routing software to create routes of approximately 25 homes. The flags are dropped into plastic conduits in the customers lawns that have been previously installed by other volunteers. They are topped with a bright red plastic cap. Your heart will burst with joy when, after several minutes crawling on the ground, you spot that red cap and can deploy a flag. And a solar powered light. Then move on to the next address.
One member of the team must have a vehicle capable of carrying twelve foot flags. A route can take 4-5 hours to complete.
The flags will remain out until after the September 11 holiday. They will need to be picked up and returned to the warehouse in the week starting Monday September 15. This is a change from previous years when we picked up flags after July 4 and put them out again for Labor Day.
If you can return as a volunteer or want to be a new participant, please let me know. It can be a lot of fun. And we raise $30,000 from the effort.
Gratefully,
John Loftus
Rotary Flag Project