{"id":281665,"date":"2026-05-23T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281665\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:05:07","slug":"san-carlos-park-duo-plants-1100-flags-ahead-of-memorial-day-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281665\/","title":{"rendered":"San Carlos Park duo plants 1,100 flags ahead of Memorial Day | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN CARLOS PARK, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Two men from San Carlos Park are rallying the community to show support for the country ahead of Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley Clark and Ed Trimner lead a group called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sancarlosproud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Carlos Proud<\/a>, which they first introduced to WINK News a few weeks ago. The duo places flags in yards across San Carlos Park several times a year to honor those who have served.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do it for Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Fourth of July, 911 and Veterans Day,&#8221; Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put them at every, every mailbox, every every house gets a flag, every mailbox, even if there&#8217;s two together,&#8221; Trimner said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"san carlos proud\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The tradition involves 1,100 flags, two men, some sponsors who help pay for the flags and a few volunteers. It started six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He takes care of all the flags, he cleans them, paints them, preps them,&#8221; Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>Clark and Trimner said it was never about the cost or the recognition. Each flag placed is for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s to give respect to those who gave it all, so that we could be going out there and put the flags down, and without some of those, maybe we wouldn&#8217;t even be here today,&#8221; Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>As the years go on, this tradition has gotten harder for the duo. Clark said he no longer goes out to put the flags up himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We both have back trouble, but I have bad knees now,&#8221; Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>The men first introduced their patriotic mission at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/wink_listens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WINK Listens<\/a> event. Now they hope the community hears their message about spreading the word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you just want some information on what we do and how to start it up in your own neighborhood, call us, and we&#8217;ll tell you how to get the flags,&#8221; Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you love our country and you love our neighborhood, this is the way to show it,&#8221; Trimner said.<\/p>\n<p>The men will start to put the flags out Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN CARLOS PARK, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Two men from San Carlos Park are rallying the community to show support for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,119969],"class_list":["post-281665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-san-carlos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}