PROCLAMATION

• The Ashland Community Service Volunteers contributed many thousands of hours during the past year to the Ashland community.

• Their volunteer activities encompass service to students in the remedial reading program in our local schools, offering clerical assistance to our Municipal Court and Police Department, maintaining Police archives, and administering the Community Service Volunteer office.

• The Forest Service attributes the lack of fires in the watershed to the volunteers who patrol the 35-mile circuit and provide a lot of goodwill by making the public aware of the restrictions in that area.

• Many of our senior citizens are assisted by volunteers providing assistance with transportation, shopping, home visits, household upkeep, income tax preparation, and assistance to those seniors in nursing homes.

• These volunteers also perform other vital services such as the influenza inoculation clinic, blood pressure clinic, Meals-on-Wheels, Food & Friends, mail courier for city departments, participation in the Vacation House Check Program, providing traffic control for parades, and the Adult Crossing Guard Program, as well as many others.

• Over 120 citizens currently serve on the city's volunteer boards, commissions and committees and are committed to making a difference in the community by developing new programs, and recommending and making suggestions to city staff and city council.

• Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) volunteers are trained by Ashland Fire & Rescue and offer an added element to public safety in the event of an emergency which would otherwise overwhelm normal services.

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council and Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of Ashland, hereby proclaim April 18 through April 24, 2004, as

VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION WEEK

in Ashland and ask that all citizens recognize these special people who give their time, energy and resources in assisting others, thereby making our community a nicer place in which to live.

Dated this 20th day of April, 2004.

Alan DeBoer, Mayor
Barbara Christensen, City Recorder

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