White Township, Pennsylvania (U.S.) (original) (raw)

The flag was adopted on March 9, 2023 after a year long process. It was adopted so they can participate in the PASTS Flag Parade, which was started back in 2022.

The flag is a white field with a double border of "fire-truck red" and black. In the center is the township logo.

The local media, Indiana Gazelle made an article about the flag:
Source: https://www.indianagazette.com(pay-to-read)

Supervisors unveil official White Township flag March 9, 2023

White Township supervisors on Wednesday unveiled the township�s official flag design that will be displayed at the 2023 Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) conference flag parade April 24 in Hershey.

Supervisors approved designing the flag during a May 2022 supervisors meeting after supervisor Eugene Gemmel pushed the board to come up with a design by this year�s PSATS conference.

�At the PSATS convention, they had a parade of flags,� Gemmel said during the May 2022 meeting. �And I think there are (around) 1,500 townships in Pennsylvania, but I believe, if I remember correctly, they had (around) 27 townships that displayed flags. (The PSATS) are going to continue to do this. By another year, I would like to see White Township have a flag in that little parade.�

During the May 2022 meeting, the board tasked supervisors Sandi Gillete and Gail McCauley, who�s now chairperson, with leading the design efforts. Supervisors ultimately settled on a white flag with the township�s emblem in the middle as well as the date the township�s supervisors were incorporated, with a fire engine red border.

�We worked in-house here with the help of the board (to design the flag),� said township manager Chris Anderson. �Supervisor Sandi Gillette helped, myself, (and) we worked through Fast Times Screen Printing to design the flag.�

Anderson said the board came up with a number of designs while working on the flag, which included silhouettes of a hill, a barn and other patterns incorporating local scenery. Although the township didn�t use those designs for the flag, they can still use them for various other township documents.

�When we went through the design process, we came up with a couple different designs with silhouettes, and a hill and some barns and stuff,� Anderson said. (We can still) utilize those in the township somehow, whether it be a planning document or a comprehensive plan update.�

The logo is made of a white rectangle with a black outline, Inside the rectangle is the township name. Above the rectangle is an unofficial Indiana County seal, connected to the rectangle by four black bars.