Full Text of HR0756 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 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
| 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
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Maywood Rotary Club was started in January of | 11 | | 1924 by those from the Oak Park Rotary Club; and
| 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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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The Maywood Rotary Club has donated over 1,700 | 2 | | dictionaries to every 3rd grader in District 89 and the | 3 | | parochial schools; it has sent Proviso East High School | 4 | | students to live in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, and is | 5 | | currently supporting a Melrose Park student who is a Rhodes | 6 | | Scholar studying at the University of Oxford; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, A celebration in honor of the Maywood Rotary Club | 8 | | will be held on January 23, 2014 at Tom's Steak House in | 9 | | Melrose Park; therefore, be it
| 10 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 11 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 | | we congratulate the Maywood Rotary Club on 90 years of service | 13 | | to the surrounding community, and we wish them many more years | 14 | | of success; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to the Maywood Rotary Club as an expression of our | 17 | | esteem and respect.
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