Full Text of HR0526 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the members of the | 4 | | Bloomington Kiwanis Club on the 90th anniversary of the | 5 | | organization; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In the late spring of 1921 a group of men headed | 7 | | by Kaywin Kennedy, A. L. Beyer, and C. W. Frey, among others, | 8 | | called their friends and associates together to form a | 9 | | Bloomington Kiwanis Club; the group, which met at the Illinois | 10 | | House Hotel, grew to more than 50 members during the summer; | 11 | | and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Soon after their formation the group applied to | 13 | | Kiwanis International to be chartered as an official club; the | 14 | | charter was granted on September 21, 1921; the charter was | 15 | | delivered to Bloomington on November 14, 1921 by the sponsoring | 16 | | Kiwanis Club of Springfield; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, In 1931, the Bloomington Pantagraph, under the | 18 | | leadership of Kiwanian Reverend Breen, began sponsoring Camp | 19 | | Limberlost, a camp for area children; by 1932, Kiwanians were | 20 | | increasingly involved in the project and in 1934 the Kiwanis | 21 | | Club became a co-sponsor; in 1940, The Bloomington Kiwanis Club | 22 | | became the sole sponsor of the project; for more than 75 years |
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| 1 | | this project has continued and is now the longest running | 2 | | continuous project in all of Kiwanis International. It is also | 3 | | the oldest residential camp in Illinois; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In 1932, The Bloomington Kiwanis Club, in | 5 | | association with the Bloomington Pantagraph, developed a | 6 | | Community Gardens project in which several acres of land south | 7 | | of town were loaned by land owners to plant vegetable gardens | 8 | | to help feed a community suffering from the deprivations of the | 9 | | Great Depression; the project provided work for unemployed men | 10 | | in the community and also provided a bounteous harvest to feed | 11 | | the hungry; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, The Bloomington Kiwanis Club has developed many | 13 | | fundraisers to help support its many projects, including the | 14 | | annual Peanut Days, the annual Pancake Days, Kiwanis Cheese | 15 | | sales, and its newest fundraiser, the Kiwanis Mother's Day | 16 | | Flower Sale, which has been a popular event on the first | 17 | | weekend in May; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, In 2011, the Bloomington Kiwanis Club celebrates | 19 | | 90 years of service to this community; over the years it has | 20 | | partnered with many agencies in the community to help make | 21 | | Bloomington a better place to live, work, and grow; therefore, | 22 | | be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 | | we congratulate the members of the Bloomington Kiwanis Club on | 4 | | this momentous anniversary and wish them the best for years to | 5 | | come; and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to the Bloomington Kiwanis Club as a symbol of our | 8 | | respect and esteem.
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