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CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FLAGDAY -APRIL 22, 2011
WHEREAS, throughout America, tragic cases of violence against children occur
frequently and senselessly, destroy innocent lives and devastate families; and
WHEREAS, Sonoma County has had violent preventable child deaths by guns, knives,
bats, automobiles, physical abuse, and suicide; and
WHEREAS, MOVES (Minimize Occurrences of Violence in Everyday Society) 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; 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 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, and
which has been adopted in other California communities.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, David Glass, Mayor of Petaluma,
along with the members of the City Council, do hereby proclaim April 22, 2011 as Children's
Memorial Flag Day in memory of children who have died by violence 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, thereby strengthening the communities in which we live.
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