Story and photos by Stephen Zenner
TOLEDO – Immediately following Tuesday’s vote by Toledo city council to adopt a new flag, Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz went outside, lowered the old one, instated in 1994 by Carty Finkbeiner, and officially retired it.
Ceremoniously, Kapszukiewicz, along with the designer of the new flag, Mark Yappueying, senior manager of design for the Toledo Museum of Art, and Kid Mayor Lilly Joseph, 11, then raised the new design on Toledo’s 188th birthday.
Yappueying smiled as he watched his design, prominently featuring a Blockhouse, Toledo’s initial settlement and trading post, sway in the brisk wind in front of 1 Government Center…