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OF
HONORARY PROCLAMATION
DECLARING JUNE 7, 2019
AS "HUNGER AWARENESS DAY"
WHEREAS, the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County is the leading hunger relief organization in
the County; and
WHEREAS, the Food Bank was founded in 1989, and this year is celebrating its 30th Anniversary; and
WHEREAS, the Food Bank provides the backbone infrastructure for hunger relief and is the primary source of
quality and affordable food for over 70 partner nonprofit agencies that feed the hungry; and
WHEREAS, the Food Bank and its coalition partners deliver nutritious food to those in need to every
community in the County, from Nipomo to San Miguel, on the coast from Los Osos to San Simeon, and to
points east including Creston, Shandon, and California Valley; and
WHEREAS, the Food Bank provides millions of pounds of only the most wholesome nutrition which advances
and promotes important public health outcomes; and
WHEREAS, the Food Bank believes that the people of our County will rally in a one-day push to donate funds
needed to alleviate local hunger; and
WHEREAS, the Food Bank is coordinating a Countywide fundraising event to promote Hunger Awareness
Day on June 7, 2019, to help alleviate hunger.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Caren Ray Russom, Mayor of the City of Arroyo Grande, on
behalf of the City Council, do hereby declare June 7, 2019 as "HUNGER AWARENESS DAY" in Arroyo
Grande.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
Seal of the City of Arroyo Grande to be affixed this 28 th day of May 2019.
CAREN RAY RUSSOM, MAYOR
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