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From http://www.crescent-news.com/archive/2002/04/15/local1.html (no longer available):
New Bavaria man winner of Henry County flag contest
By HEATHER BAUGHMAN, Staff Writer
NAPOLEON - The new Henry County flag depicts several symbols significant to Henry County: Lady Justice, who stands high atop the county courthouse; ropes, signifying the canal along the Maumee River; wheat, representing the county's agriculture industry; and 13 stars, one for each of the county's townships. The designer of the flag that was unveiled Sunday is 21-year-old Elliot Geno of New Bavaria. Geno is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School and a junior at Defiance College, studying multimedia communications. He is employed as a graphics designer at The Crescent-News. Out of 180 entries submitted for the Henry County flag, Geno's design won the people's choice award and was ultimately selected as the new county flag by representatives of the Henry County Historical Society and Henry County Arts Council, which sponsored the contest.
The winning flag was unveiled Sunday afternoon at the Henry County Historical Society's Grelton museum. After hearing about the contest, Geno said, "I thought I'd give it a try." Little did he know he would end up the winner. "This will be a nice bonus to my portfolio," said Geno, whose dream is to work with computer animation. When he decided to create a design for the contest, Geno said he had an idea in mind to entwine several county symbols on a flag that is the same shape as that of the state of Ohio flag. "I had some ideas floating around in my head," he said of the project, which took a few hours to design once he sat down at his computer.
The end result: a traditional-looking flag, also representative of Henry Cou