COMPLAINT PUTS HOLD ON FLAG-BURNING CEREMONY.Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer Burning the Stars and Stripes Stars and Stripes nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567] See : America is a 49-year-old tradition for American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Post 339, but smoke from the nylon and rayon flags has raised a flap with Ventura County air pollution regulators. Responding to a neighbor's complaint after a ceremonial burning June 19, regulators advised leaders of the downtown Ventura post to stop the occasional practice until a less offensive method is found. What concerns post leaders is the prospect that they might need a permit or other official approval whenever they plan to put a piece of burning paper to a pile of worn red-white-and-blue emblems in a backyard barbecue pit. They contend the venerable practice honoring the Stars and Stripes - and often performed at schools on Flag Day - should not be threatened by a single complaint. ``We try to get them all burned on Flag Day, but if we get too many we have to burn them a few times a year,'' said Paul Rodriguez For Rodriguez's son, the professional skateboarder, see . Paul Rodriguez (born January 19, 1955 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican American comedian. , post president and a Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. veteran. ``After all the years of doing this, one person complained and they were going to give us a citation. They backed off of that, but it's still an issue.'' More than 100 old or tattered tat·tered adj. 1. Torn into shreds; ragged. 2. Having ragged clothes; dressed in tatters. 3. a. Shabby or dilapidated. b. Disordered or disrupted. flags are turned in at the Palm Street post each year by local governments, schools and merchants. The owner of a nearby store that sells flags even has a sign in the window directing people with flags to burn to the post, Rodriguez said. While flag-burning doesn't require a permit, just like agriculture burning, the fact that enough smoke is produced to generate a complaint requires corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or , said Scott Johnson Scott Johnson may refer to:
``This has not been an issue before. We get into these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. as people complain,'' said Johnson, who refused to identify the complaining party. ``Generally we have provisions that prohibit open burning of materials. So we looked for any exceptions to the regulations. We did not find any exceptions,'' he explained. ``We advised them that they should not do it again.'' That is until the post and air pollution regulators can come up with a way for ``better and cleaner'' burning, Johnson said. The 15-minute flag-burning ceremony featuring a chaplain's prayer and a formal presentation is serious business for American Legion posts that practice the ritual. So leaders of the 1,200-member Post 339 said they will do whatever air pollution regulators advise to keep the tradition alive. ``We've been doing it for years. I think we can work something out,'' said Don Foote, an Air Force veteran who served in World War II and has participated in flag-burnings since joining the post in 1949, a year after its founding. By most accounts, the flag-burning flap is an unusual air pollution issue. ``It's not an issue that's on our radar screen. We're more concerned about wood burning in winter, ag burning in general,'' said Allan Hirsch, spokesman for the California Air Resources Board California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the "clean air agency" of the state of California in the United States. Established originally in 1967, it is a part of the California Environmental Protection Agency, an organization which reports directly to the California . Johnson, the Ventura County air pollution official, said regulators are ``very anxious to resolve this situation.'' |
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