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1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the Maywood Rotary |
4 | | Club on 90 years of service to the community; and
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5 | | WHEREAS, Rotary International is the oldest and largest |
6 | | service club in the world with over 1.2 million members and |
7 | | over 27,000 clubs in every country in the world; the first |
8 | | club, Chicago One, was started by Paul Harris and 4 other |
9 | | business men in 1905; and
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10 | | WHEREAS, The Maywood Rotary Club was started in January of |
11 | | 1924 by those from the Oak Park Rotary Club; and
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12 | | WHEREAS, The Maywood Rotary Club has raised over $100,000 |
13 | | in the last 10 years and donated half of it to local service |
14 | | projects such as PADs Aspire, Maywood Fine Arts, the Boys and |
15 | | Girls Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, Boy and Girl |
16 | | Scout troops, and many others; the international projects have |
17 | | purchased emergency shelters in the Philippines, a prostatic |
18 | | clinic in Bolivia, a school for girls in West Africa, and land |
19 | | mine clearance in Mozambique; every years, it donates to the |
20 | | worldwide Rotary, the Gates Foundation, and UNICEF to end |
21 | | polio; and
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