By Elyssa Cunningham and Allison Young

For the Sequim Gazette

We are honored to say that our American flag has finally been raised after many years at Peninsula Adventist Elementary School. Esther Littlejohn and Keith Brown donated the light to make it possible to fly the flag continuously.

A ceremony was held Oct. 4 and was led by: school board chair Lynn Berg; Twyla Luke, director of the Sequim Valley Pathfinder Club, and the Pathfinder Color Guard. Pastor Mark Pekar from Sequim Adventist Church closed with prayer.

“It gave us the opportunity to come together and in raising the flag, remember the freedom we enjoy, the right to an education, and the freedom to worship,” Berg said.

Dr. Robert Littlejohn donated the land to build the school in the mid-1950s.

Esther Littlejohn and Brown continue to support Peninsula Adventist Elementary School located at 255 Medsker Road, Sequim. Littlejohn said she is just being a “good neighbor.”

For more about Peninsula Adventist Adventist School, visit sequimwa.adventistschoolconnect.org.

Cunningham and Young are sixth-graders at Peninsula Adventist Elementary School. – MD

Photo courtesy Allison Young and Ellison Cunningham/ Attendees await a flag ceremony on Oct. 4, to celebrate a new light installed at Peninsula Adventist Elementary School that allows the American flag to fly 24 hours a day.