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Flag Collection Box Now In Service
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Ready for use, a flag collection box has been refurbished and installed at the Escalon American Legion Post. Here, from left, Vince Giovaniello, Al Bellinger, Angelo Blanco, Jack OBayley and Steve Scott display the freshly painted receptacle. Marg Jackson/The Times
An idea that started when an old city billing ‘drive thru’ receptacle was abandoned has now come to fruition. And the patriotically painted box to collect U.S. flags for retirement is stationed outside the Escalon American Legion Post headquarters on Second Street. Legion members point to the initial work of Escalon City Councilman Danny Fox as being the proponent for the project.