The city of Cape Coral will officially \u201cRaise the Flag\u201d at a ceremony to be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, at Bernice Braden Park.<\/p>\n
The event will celebrate the completion of the city\u2019s community-funded effort to build the tallest free\u2011standing American flagpole in Florida.<\/p>\n
The public is invited to attend the ceremony and join in this patriotic milestone for the community. <\/p>\n
The ceremony will culminate with the flag being raised for the first time, celebrating the public support that helped make the project possible.<\/p>\n
The 250-foot flagpole was created to honor America\u2019s 250th birthday and to stand as a lasting symbol of freedom, democracy, and unity in Cape Coral. <\/p>\n
The \u201cRaise the Flag\u201d project began as an idea from City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn, who proposed a major patriotic landmark for Cape Coral to mark the nation\u2019s 250th year. <\/p>\n
The project was approved by city council, and construction of the flagpole itself is being funded through private donations.<\/p>\n
Bernice Braden Park is at 2051 Cape Coral Parkway East, at the foot of the Cape Coral Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Cape Coral will officially \u201cRaise the Flag\u201d at a ceremony to be held at 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-305501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305501","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=305501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}