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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     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 and
 
7     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
 
14     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
 
19     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
 
30     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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1 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
 
6     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
 
11     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
12 presented to Miss Marco as an expression of our esteem.