PROCLAMATION

•	Rotary International is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
•	Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 166 countries and this community.
•	Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women.
•	The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
•	Because the main objective of Rotary is service -- in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world -- Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence, and also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development.
•	Rotary has worked for positive change since 1905 by sending thousands of students abroad, fighting hunger, pollution, and eradicating polio on the planet by contributing more than $500 million USD to immunize more than two billion children against the crippling disease of polio.
•	Since 1947 Rotary Foundation of Rotary International has awarded more than US$1.3 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.
•	Although all Rotary clubs develop autonomous, local service programs, Rotarians in this commu-nity are united worldwide, donating their time, energy and financial resources to the humanitarian causes of Rotary's international mission.
•	Rotary will celebrate its 100th anniversary on February 23, 2005.

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council and Mayor, on behalf of the citizens of Ashland, join Ro-tarians from around the world and around our neighborhoods in celebrating Rotary's accomplishments and its 100th anniversary and expresses its thanks to all local and worldwide Rotarians for the example they set in carrying out the true spirit of the Rotary Motto: "Service Above Self."

Dated this 15th day of February, 2005

Barbara Christensen, City Recorder
John W. Morrison, Mayor

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