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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Mr. John Jay of Mahomet was recently named the |
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| 2006 News Gazette Farm Leader of the Year; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Jay has lived in western Champaign County all |
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| of his life; he has spent much of his life managing farmland |
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| for others; and
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| WHEREAS, He attended Champaign schools and graduated from |
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| Central High School, where he took vocational agriculture |
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| classes and participated in a parliamentary procedures team; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Throughout the years, Mr. Jay has grown wheat, |
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| corn, and soybeans; for a while, he raised Berkshire gilts, a |
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| breed of hogs; and
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| WHEREAS, As he farmed full-time, he gradually became |
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| involved in local government, first as Mahomet Township clerk; |
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| eventually he was elected as a trustee and supervisor, a |
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| position he still holds today; he has spent 38 years working |
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| for the township; he also served on the board of the Champaign |
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| County Soil and Water Conservation District and has spent 35 |
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| years with the Cornbelt Fire Protection District; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Jay is retired, but still manages some |
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| farmland; he helps his son, Bill Jay, who is also a farmer, |
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| during harvest and works full-time as fire chief; he represents |
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| District 1 on the Champaign County Board, and he is the Mahomet |
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| Township supervisor; he and his wife, Sunny, live in Mahomet; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we congratulate Mr. John Jay of Mahomet on being named the 2006 |
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