Full Text of HR1284 94th General Assembly
HR1284 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Katherine "Kizzy" Marco of LaGrange has been named | 3 |
| "Young Woman of the Year" by the West Suburban Chamber of | 4 |
| Commerce and Industry; the award is one of four awards given by | 5 |
| the Chamber as part of the Pride of the Future Youth Awards; | 6 |
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| WHEREAS, Kizzy is a senior at Nazareth Academy, where she | 8 |
| has been a member of the Community Memorial Foundation's Youth | 9 |
| Initiative, French and Spanish clubs, fall play crews, | 10 |
| Catholics Opposed to Racism, and Peacebuilders Outreach team; | 11 |
| she was coordinator/planner for red ribbon week, is a big | 12 |
| sister to freshmen, a senior leader/planner for freshman | 13 |
| orientation, and a focus group leader; and
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| WHEREAS, Miss Marco spearheaded the effort by the Youth | 15 |
| Initiative to bring Operation: Snowball (healthy decision | 16 |
| making) to Nazareth; she led efforts to develop a plan to | 17 |
| implement the program, gave up time in the summer to train for | 18 |
| the program, and then implemented the program; and
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| WHEREAS, She serves her church in several ways, including | 20 |
| as a catechist for preschool religious education and cantor at | 21 |
| St. Francis Xavier Teen Mass; she is a Hodgkin's tutor and a | 22 |
| team captain/ recruiter for the American Cancer Society's Relay | 23 |
| for Life; she volunteers with the American Cancer Society's | 24 |
| Making Strides for Breast Cancer, the Victorian Manor | 25 |
| (LaGrange) residential facility for elders, the Hole in One | 26 |
| Club (LaGrange) after school program, BEHIV (Better Existence | 27 |
| with HIV), Project Linus, Children's Memorial Hospital | 28 |
| (summer), and Phantom Lake YMCA Camp in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, | 29 |
| as a camp counselor; and
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| WHEREAS, Miss Marco has overcome a major obstacle to become | 31 |
| the person she is today; when she was 13 years old, an accident |
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| at a softball game led to her diagnosis of a rare and serious | 2 |
| illness, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome; throughout the | 3 |
| years since the diagnosis, she has learned to take every day as | 4 |
| the gift that it is and spends all of her time giving to | 5 |
| others; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 8 |
| we congratulate Katherine "Kizzy" Marco on being named "Young | 9 |
| Woman of the Year", and we applaud her tireless efforts to | 10 |
| serve other through countless venues; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to Miss Marco as an expression of our esteem.
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