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CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL DAY
If
WHEREAS, throughout America, tragic cases of violence against children are
k occurring with increasing frequency and senselessness, destroying innocent lives and
devastating families; and
WHEREAS, the people of the City of Petaluma believe in the celebration of life,
diversity, and hope for the future through our children, and deplore and condemn acts of
violence comrnitted upon the children of our communities, and
WHEREAS, the committee to Minimize Occurrences of Violence in Everyday
Society (MOVES) and the Sonoma County Human Services Department are committed
to raising individual and public consciousness of the need to care for all our children and
to honor young lives lost during the month of April; and
WHEREAS, the Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation is building the
Children's Memorial Grove at Spring Lake Park dedicated to the memory of Sonoma
County's children who have died of violence; 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, and which has been adopted in other California communities.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT PROCLAIMED that in memory of children who
have died by violence, the City of Petaluma does hereby proclahn the fourth Friday in
April as "Children's Memorial Day and urge all citizens to increase their participation in
efforts to prevent child abuse and child death. and to support the Children's Memorial
Grove, therzby strengthening the communities- 1.4 which to live.
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CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL DAY
If
WHEREAS, throughout America, tragic cases of violence against children are
k occurring with increasing frequency and senselessness, destroying innocent lives and
devastating families; and
WHEREAS, the people of the City of Petaluma believe in the celebration of life,
diversity, and hope for the future through our children, and deplore and condemn acts of
violence comrnitted upon the children of our communities, and
WHEREAS, the committee to Minimize Occurrences of Violence in Everyday
Society (MOVES) and the Sonoma County Human Services Department are committed
to raising individual and public consciousness of the need to care for all our children and
to honor young lives lost during the month of April; and
WHEREAS, the Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation is building the
Children's Memorial Grove at Spring Lake Park dedicated to the memory of Sonoma
County's children who have died of violence; 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, and which has been adopted in other California communities.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT PROCLAIMED that in memory of children who
have died by violence, the City of Petaluma does hereby proclahn the fourth Friday in
April as "Children's Memorial Day and urge all citizens to increase their participation in
efforts to prevent child abuse and child death. and to support the Children's Memorial
Grove, therzby strengthening the communities- 1.4 which to live.
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