WHEREAS, school counselors are employed in public and private schools to help students reach their full potential; and

        WHEREAS, school counselors are actively committed to helping students explore their abilities, strengths, interests and talents as these traits relate to career awareness and development; and

        WHEREAS, school counselors help parents focus on ways to further the educational, personal and social growth of their children; and

        WHEREAS, school counselors work with teachers and other educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals; and

        WHEREAS, school counselors seek to identify and utilize community resources that can enhance and complement comprehensive school counseling programs and help students become productive members of society; and

        WHEREAS, comprehensive development school counseling programs are considered an integral part of the education process that enables all students to achieve success in school;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim February 5 through 9, 2007, to be

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in Idaho.

IN 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 6^th day of February in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven 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.       

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE