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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The Governor's Home Town Awards will be given out
3 on November 27, 2007 at an awards banquet at the Crown Plaza
4 Hotel in Springfield; and
 
5     WHEREAS, The City of Breese celebrated its 150th
6 anniversary in June of 2006; and
 
7     WHEREAS, The celebration included a visit by the Mobile
8 Vietnam Wall Memorial, a raffle for a 2006 Mustang Convertible,
9 a vintage baseball tournament, a car show, and a parade; and
 
10     WHEREAS, The Mobile Vietnam Wall Memorial is a scaled
11 replica of The Wall located in Washington, D.C., that travels
12 the country; it was developed to give those who are unable to
13 travel to Washington the opportunity to see their loved ones'
14 names on the Wall; and
 
15     WHEREAS, The celebration events were sponsored by the
16 Vietnam Veterans of America, the Lions Club, the Fire
17 Department, the Jaycees, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the
18 Historical Society; and
 
19     WHEREAS, The sesquicentennial celebration happened on the
20 weekend of June 2-4, 2006; because of the community's efforts

 

 

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1 on this anniversary project, the community was selected as a
2 recipient of the 2007 Governor's Home Town Award; therefore, be
3 it
 
4     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
5 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
6 congratulate the City of Breese on this award, and we wish the
7 residents a prosperous future; and be it further
 
8     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9 presented to the City of Breese as an expression of our esteem.