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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 and thank Nora | ||||||
| 4 | Power for her work with UNICEF and many other community | ||||||
| 5 | organizations; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Nora Power's interest in UNICEF began when she saw | ||||||
| 7 | a commercial about children in Africa who did not have enough | ||||||
| 8 | to eat, proper medical attention, or the opportunity to go to | ||||||
| 9 | school; after the commercial, she wondered why the kids could | ||||||
| 10 | not go to school and why their parents did not feed them; | ||||||
| 11 | inspired by her strong sense of right and wrong, she came up | ||||||
| 12 | with the idea to ask the people she knew to donate one dollar | ||||||
| 13 | toward changing a child's life forever; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Nora Power originally intended to raise $300, an | ||||||
| 15 | amount that would support one child for a year; through her | ||||||
| 16 | fundraising efforts and a speech that she gave to the entire | ||||||
| 17 | school at morning announcements and during the students' lunch | ||||||
| 18 | periods, as well as enlisting the help of the local PTA, Nora | ||||||
| 19 | easily raised this amount; instead of being content with | ||||||
| 20 | raising this amount, however, Nora decided to raise $900, which | ||||||
| 21 | would support three children for a year; and
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| 22 | WHEREAS, With her new goal of $900 in mind, Nora Power took | ||||||
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| 1 | her speech to her Brownie Scout Troop and asked for their help; | ||||||
| 2 | she went door-to-door to her neighbors and made an announcement | ||||||
| 3 | at her neighborhood block party; she also told her doctors, her | ||||||
| 4 | dentist, her therapists, and everyone she met about UNICEF and | ||||||
| 5 | the children who need help; after beginning her campaign in the | ||||||
| 6 | early spring of 2nd grade, she had raised $1,400 by the | ||||||
| 7 | beginning of 3rd grade; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Emboldened and empowered by her experience with | ||||||
| 9 | raising money for UNICEF, Nora Power now seeks to continue | ||||||
| 10 | helping those in need; currently mulling her options, she has | ||||||
| 11 | expressed an interest in wildlife projects in the Gulf of | ||||||
| 12 | Mexico and the pandas of China; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Nora Power has served as an inspiration to many; | ||||||
| 14 | following her example, some of the librarians at her local | ||||||
| 15 | public library were inspired to go assist Nora in packing meals | ||||||
| 16 | for Feed My Starving Children; she also inspired one of the | ||||||
| 17 | library's youth librarians to take a trip to help the children | ||||||
| 18 | of Bangladesh; and | ||||||
| 19 | WHEREAS, Nora Power serves as a model of hard work, | ||||||
| 20 | integrity, and dedication for the people of the State of | ||||||
| 21 | Illinois; therefore, be it
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| 22 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
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| 1 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 2 | we congratulate and thank Nora Power for her work in her | ||||||
| 3 | community and the world at large and wish her the best in her | ||||||
| 4 | future endeavors; and be it further
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| 5 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 6 | presented to Nora Power as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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