Kyle Area Senior Zone celebrates with flag raising

By C.J. Vetter

KYLE — The Kyle Area Senior Zone (KASZ) and A&R Auto Center celebrated Juneteenth with Kyle’s first flag raising ceremony on June 19 as part of an effort to help educate the community about the history of Juneteenth and celebrate its second anniversary as a federal holiday. 

The holiday, which was signed into federal law by President Biden in 2021, commemorates the end of slavery following the Civil War. While the Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, slavery did not officially end until 1865, when General Order No. 3 was issued, legally abolishing slavery in the state of Texas. The celebrations that followed were later recognized as Juneteenth, and quickly spread throughout Texas and across the U.S.