Long-time city parish worker designs new flag

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Since he was a youngster, Greg LeBlanc had a thing for flags. He grew up spending free time creating flags out of old cloths, and he would fly them attached to a wooden stick in his parents’ backyard. 

Fast forward to present day, and just last week, his creation of a flag for East Baton Rouge Parish now flies as the official parish flag for EBR. His design features a flag with a red background divided by a vertical stripe and a wavy horizontal blue stripe with a central emblem.

The red stripe with the white border and the flag’s red background represent  the “red stick” that French settlers found when first reaching the land eventually dubbed “Baton Rouge.”

The blue wavy stripe represents the Mississippi River. The emblem represents the previous powers that held Baton Rouge: the French Fleur-de-lis, the Spanish castle, and the English flag.

District 2 Councilman Aaron Moak learned about LeBlanc’s design and sponsored the resolution to make it the parish’s first flag. LeBlanc gifted the first copy of the flag, which was raised last Thursday morning for the first time.

LeBlanc says, “I have heard people say they liked the design, and I’ve heard people say it looks like Norway’s flag. Everyone has an opinion.”

LeBlanc took the initiative to create the flag, and it’s a flag highlighting Louisiana history, so it sounds like a win-win for EBR.

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