PROCLAMATION

• In 1988, Youth Service America (YSA) and the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) organized the first National Youth Service Day.

• In the last decade, National Youth Service Day has grown to the largest service event in the world, engaging millions of young people.

• As a public awareness and education campaign, National Youth Service Day highlights the amazing contributions that young people make to their communities.

• National Youth Service Day encourages youth to participate in community activities, begin youth on a lifelong path of service and civic engagement, and mobilize youth as leaders to identify and address the needs of their communities through service.

• Youth who volunteer are more likely to do well in school, graduate, vote and volunteer the rest of their lives.

NOW THEREFORE, the City Council and Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of Ashland, hereby proclaim April 16 - 18, 2004 as:

"NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY"

and urge our citizens to participate wholeheartedly in its observance.

Dated this 6th day of April, 2004.

Barbara Christensen, City Recorder
Alan DeBoer, Mayor

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