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Flag disposal

The Abingdon Ruritan Club Citizenship & Patriotism Committee met recently to fold American flags that had been discarded because they were torn or damaged. A total of 158 flags were folded, plus numerous partial flag pieces that could not be folded. The flags will be properly burned at a future ceremony. Those participating included, kneeling from left, committee chair Liz Turner and Mark Bradford; standing, volunteer Donnie Dale and members Cathy Dale, Mary Lou Privott, Sid Dixon, Joe Whitcomb, Dave Kyle, Betsy Tuttle, Sandra Hogge, Ann Dugas and Eva Tillage. Photographer Danny Privott and Dianne Woolley, not pictrured, also folded flags....

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