Full Text of HR0871 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Chicago-born Frank Avila met Peoria-born Sherry | 3 | | Hooste at Esther Hall, a Methodist girls club, in Chicago in | 4 | | 1961; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Frank Avila received his Bachelor's Degree in | 6 | | Civil Engineering in January of 1961; Sherry Avila received her | 7 | | Bachelor's Degree in Education in January of 1966 from the | 8 | | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Frank and Sherry Avila were married on November | 10 | | 27, 1965 at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago; | 11 | | and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, From 1966 to 1968, Frank and Sherry Avila lived in | 13 | | Tucson, Arizona, where Frank completed his Master's Degree in | 14 | | Finance at the University of Arizona in 1968; for 48 of the 50 | 15 | | years of their marriage, Frank and Sherry have lived in | 16 | | Chicago; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Frank and Sherry Avila have been very blessed with | 18 | | 3 wonderful children, Frank (Rachel), Quinn (Jackie), and | 19 | | Audrey, and 2 wonderful grandchildren, Clarence and Thalia; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Frank Avila was the owner and operator of Avila & |
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| 1 | | Associates, Inc., a consulting engineering company, for about | 2 | | 27 years; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Together, Frank and Sherry Avila collected 17,000 | 4 | | signatures to get Frank on the ballot as Commissioner of the | 5 | | Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago for | 6 | | the third time; he finally won the third election in 2002, | 7 | | followed by victories in his fourth election in 2008 and his | 8 | | fifth election in 2014; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Frank Avila serves as Chairman of Finance on the | 10 | | Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation | 11 | | District of Greater Chicago, and he has received numerous | 12 | | awards for his work; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Frank and Sherry Avila produced numerous CAN-TV | 14 | | shows, including "Commissioner Frank Avila Speaks...", many TV | 15 | | shows about the environment, and Sherry's "Avila Fine Arts" and | 16 | | "Avila Making A Difference"; many of these shows are featured | 17 | | on YouTube and other websites; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Frank and Sherry Avila have travelled together to | 19 | | many places all over the world, including China, Russia, | 20 | | Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, Gibraltar, Costa Rica, Turkey, | 21 | | the Canary Islands, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican | 22 | | Republic, Puerto Rico, and about 35 of the 50 U.S. states, |
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| 1 | | including Hawaii and Alaska; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, Frank and Sherry Avila celebrated their 50th | 3 | | wedding anniversary with a trip to Belgium and the Netherlands; | 4 | | and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Frank and Sherry Avila shared the trials and | 6 | | triumphs of five decades together with commitment, | 7 | | perseverance, and unyielding strength; they attribute the | 8 | | success of their marriage to sharing an intense love of family, | 9 | | religion, laughter, education, health, the world, travel, and | 10 | | the fine arts; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 | | congratulate Frank and Sherry Avila on the occasion of their | 14 | | 50th anniversary on November 27, 2015 and wish them great | 15 | | health and happiness in the future; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Frank and Sherry Avila as a symbol of our esteem | 18 | | and respect.
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