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HomeMy WebLinkAboutProclamations 2020 CITY OF OAK PARK HEIGHTS PROCLAMATION WHEREAS: Minnesota is home to many of our nation's natural resources,foremost among them are our beautiful and abundant forests; and WHEREAS: Trees are an increasingly vital resource in Minnesota today,enriching our Iives by purifying the air, conserving soil,water and energy,creating jobs through a large forest products industry, serving as recreational settings, providing habitat for wildlife of all kinds,and creating beautiful landscapes to make our communities more livable;and WHEREAS: Human activities such as construction damage, pollution and neglect, as well as climatic extremes,disease and insects threaten our trees,creating the need for concerted action to ensure the future of community and rural forests in our state and throughout the country;and WHEREAS: Each individual can act locally to improve the environment by planting trees and ensuring that these trees are protected and receive proper maintenance in the years ahead;and WHEREAS: Each year on the last Friday in the month of April and throughout the month of May, the people of Minnesota pay special tribute to the vital natural resource that our trees represent and dedicate themselves to the continued vitality of our state's community and rural forests; NOW,THEREFORE I, Mary McComber, Mayor of the City of Oak Park Heights,do hereby proclaim Friday,April 24,2020 to be ARBOR DAY and the month of May,2020 to be ARBOR MONTH in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota. f 11 q11 4 Signed this,fit(WIC ,2020 Mary r&mber, Mayor Tree City U.S.A. 0 PROCLAMATION FOR MAY AS PONY PRIDE MONTH WHEREAS, graduates of Stillwater-area schools have been impacting our world since 1876, WHEREAS, proud alums return to our communities to raise the next generation of Ponies, WHEREAS, today, more than 8,300 kids prepare for the future in our schools, WHEREAS, hundreds of teachers and staff serve our kids with professionalism and heart, WHEREAS,just over two months remain for finishing this school year strong, WHEREAS, this big-Valley community has a small-town love for our students and teachers, WHEREAS, we, as a community, are proud to be Ponies, NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Mary McComber of the City of Oak Park Heights do hereby proclaim May as; PONY PRIDE MONTH I encourage all citizens to help "paint the town red" throughout May by displaying a Pony Pride Project flag at their homes and businesses -- in support of our kids and those who help them learn. For free Pony Pride Project flags and for more information, visit PonyPrideProject.org IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the City of Oak Park Heights, this 24th day of March, 2OT. r ary cComber, Mayor DAR Dalighters(d1heArien"n K00;J1i0 F- Saint Croix River Valley Chapter NSDAR Mary McComber, Mayor August 17, 2020 Oak Park Heights 14168 Oak Park Boulevard Oak .Park Heights, MN 55082 WHEREAS: September 17, 2020, marks the two hundred and thirty-third anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention; and WHEREAS: It is fitting and proper to accord official recognition to this magnificent document and its memorable anniversary; and to the patriotic celebrations which will commemorate the occasion; and WHEREAS: Public Law 915 guarantees the issuing of a proclamation each year by the President of the United States of America designating September 17 through 23 as Constitution Week, NOW, THEREFORE I, (/�"� y virtue of the authority vested in me as (Governor or Mayor) of the State or City) of (in the City of C 1 ado hereby proclaim the week of September 17 through 23 as CONSTITUTION WEEK AND ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals of the Framers of the constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties, remembering that lost rights may never be regained. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the (State or City) to be affixed this day of AIWLf/ of the year of our Lord two thousand d�� Signed SEAL Atte �'