Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake City Council Chairman Chris Wharton raise the city’s new flag outside of the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. The flag was co-designed by Ella Kennedy-Yoon and Arianna Meinking. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake City Council Chairman Chris Wharton raise the city’s new flag outside of the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday. The flag features a sego lily, a flower indigenous to the area meant to symbolize resilience, against a blue and white backdrop, which could symbolize snow, the sky, the Great Salt Lake and salt. The flag incorporates elements from the top two submissions: one, a stylized black honeybee overlaying a golden honeycomb centered on horizontal bands of sky blue and white; and the other, a white and golden-yellow sego lily centered on an isosceles triangle of deep blue, under sky blue triangles. The honeybee finalist flag was designed by Salt Lake resident Ella Kennedy-Yoon, 17, while the sego lily finalist flag was designed by resident Arianna Meinking, 18. After going through more than 600 submissions, the Salt Lake City Flag Design Committee decided the blue and white backdrop would pair best with the sego lily and the two designs were combined to create the new flag.
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Ella Kennedy-Yoon, left, and Arianna Meinking, co-designers of Salt Lake City’s new flag, and Mayor Erin Mendenhall pose for a photo with the flag during a flag-raising ceremony outside of the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Kennedy-Yoon and Meinking’s submissions were selected separately and then their designs were combined to create the new flag. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Ella Kennedy-Yoon, co-designer of Salt Lake City’s new flag, raises the flag during a ceremony outside of the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Kennedy-Yoon’s design and another designed by Arianna Meinking were combined to create the new flag. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Arianna Meinking, co-designer of Salt Lake City’s new flag, speaks at a flag-raising ceremony outside of the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Meinking’s design and another designed by Ella Kennedy-Yoon were combined to create the new flag. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, left, folds up the city’s new flag, as flag co-designers Arianna Meinking and Ella Kennedy-Yoon watch during a flag-raising ceremony outside of the City-County Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Kennedy-Yoon and Meinking’s designs were combined to create the new flag. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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