HomeMy WebLinkAbout047 Red Cross Month Proclamation - word - 03.05.2019
Proclamation
WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
helping our neighbors in need; and,
In the past year, the Red Cross of Silicon Valley assisted with 137
local disasters, helped save lives through its Home Fire Campaign,
and worked with community partners to install 1,716 smoke
alarms and make 591 households safer; and
WHEREAS,
the Red Cross volunteers and donors who give of their time and
resources to help members of the community, and we applaud our
heroes here in the City of Cupertino who give themselves to assist
their neighbors when they need a helping hand; and,
WHEREAS,
support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent of the
nation’s blood; teaches skills that save lives; provides international
humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their
families; and,
WHEREAS,
American Red Cross mission to prevent and alleviate human
suffering in the face of emergencies.
THEREFORE,
hereby proclaim March 2019 as
Red Cross Month
And encourage the City of Cupertino and all Americans to support this organization and
its noble humanitarian mission.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of
Cupertino to be affixed this Tuesday, March Fifth, Two Thousand and Nineteen.
____________________________
Steven M. Scharf
Mayor