Idaho State Seal
The Office of the Governor

Executive Department
State of Idaho

The Office of the Governor
Proclamation

State Capitol
Boise

 

        WHEREAS, September of each year is recognized as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month throughout the nation; and

        WHEREAS, nearly 5,000 children throughout the Rocky Mountain area suffer with cancer and have been, or are currently, being treated for childhood cancer; and

        WHEREAS, more than 150 children are newly diagnosed with cancer each year in the Rocky Mountain area; and

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim September 2006 to be

CHILD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

in Idaho.

Gold State SealIN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord two thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

       


JAMES E. RISCH
GOVERNOR

Ben Ysursa Signature
BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE

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