Taber Town Council denies request to raise Pride Flag on community flagpole but, the province offers another flagpole
TABER – UPDATE 10:00 p.m. The Town of Taber flap over a Pride flag raising has been trumped (no pun intended) by the province.
The town released a statement to LethbridgeNewsNOW at noon on Wednesday (Jan 31) with the following information:
“Moving forward, all Town-owned flagpoles will only fly the aforementioned flags [Canadian, Albertan, or Town of Taber flags on any town-owned flagpoles] except in the instances of visiting dignitaries. This removes the Confederation Park flagpole’s designation as the Community Flagpole, and no requests to fly any other flags will be considered in future as per the amendment to this policy.
However, the above motions do not prevent flags from being flown in Confederation Park should a group wish to fly them on temporary flagpoles or by other means during their event when they have rented the Cornfest stage and/or the Gazebo.