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CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FLAG DAY—APRIL 26,2013
WHEREAS, throughout America, tragic cases of violence against children occur with
frequency and senselessness, destroying innocent lives and devastating families; and
WHEREAS, Sonoma County has had violent, preventable child deaths by guns, knives,
automobiles, physical abuse, and suicide; and
WHEREAS, the Board of MOVES (Minimize Occurrences of Violence in Everyday
Society) is committed to raising individual and public consciousness of the need to care for all
our children and to honor young lives lost; and
WHEREAS,the Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation has built the Children's
Memorial Grove at Spring Lake Park dedicated to the memory of Sonoma County's children
who have passed away; and
WHEREAS, MOVES has acquired a Children's Memorial Flag from the Child Welfare
League of America, which has become a recognizable symbol of the need to do a better job of
protecting children, and which is sponsoring a national effort to memorialize child victims.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED that I, David Glass, Mayor of Petaluma,
along with the members of the City Council, in memory of children who have died by violence, `
do hereby proclaim the April 26, 2013 as "Children's Memorial Day in the City of Petaluma"
and urge all residents to increase their participation in efforts to prevent child abuse and child
death, thereby strengthening the communities in which we live.
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