The City of Garden Plain has a new design for its official flag and community logo.
The design was chosen in a contest that received 52 entries, and the Garden Plain City Council gave its approval during a meeting on May 1st.
Designed and submitted by Garden Plain resident Pam Weber, the design, titled “Rolling Wheat on the Tracks” features the gold, black, and white color scheme associated with Garden Plain. According to Weber’s description of the meaning and symbolism of the design “It is a nod to the past, present and future of the community. Russian Mennonite settlers brought hard red winter wheat with them to Kansas; the harvesting of this wheat is still vital today and will continue to be so now and into the future. The wheat is arranged in a circle which could portray a locomotive wheel of the past rolling along the black tracks that run through the middle of the flag. The rolling wheat wheel could also be a wagon wheel of the settlers who carried the wheat to our prairie land. The round rolling wheat wheel also represents a town in forward motion.”
City staff will be working to replace emblems and signs over the next few months to display the new logo.
