WHEREAS, the citizens of Idaho recognize the vital role that water-safety education plays in preventing drowning and recreational water-related injuries; and

        WHEREAS, the citizens of Idaho can be guaranteed the safest water-related recreational activities by participating in recreation at treated-water aquatics facilities; and

        WHEREAS, the citizens of Idaho recognize the vital importance of abiding by the rules set forth by trained and certified aquatics professionals who develop water-safety rules with the public’s prudent enjoyment in mind; and

        WHEREAS, the State of Idaho identifies effective water-safety programs as the best way to prevent drowning and recreational water-related injuries;

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

NATIONAL WATER SAFETY MONTH

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 Boise, Idaho, on this 17th day of May 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