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PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the City of Tukwila recognizes adequate nutrition as a basic goal
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WHEREAS, no parent should have to send a child to school hungry, no baby
should be without the comfort of the feedings needed for mental and physical
growth, no elderly person's health should be jeopardized by lack of appropriate
foods; and
W_ WHEREAS, food banks, emergency and hot meal programs working with
c' the City of Tukwila, local churches, social service agencies, and hundreds of
volunteers are striving day in and day out to stem the rising tide of hunger, but
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WHEREAS, we believe that when the citizens who are not involved hear of
tf_' the especially desperate needs of the hungry as winter approaches and their low
c --1-- incomes must stretch to cover increasing fuel, electricity and rental costs leaving 4
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drive to help support the efforts of their program and the area's food banks in
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, Steven M. Mullet, Mayor of the City of Tukwila, do
7 hereby proclaim Saturday, September 22, 2007:
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Mayor's Day of Concern for the Hungry
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