WHEREAS, the United States Congress, by joint resolution (Public Law 88-628) approved on October 6, 1964, as amended, has designated October 15th of each year as “White Cane Safety Day.”

        WHEREAS, the White Cane is both a tool and a symbol of the visually impaired/blind; and

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October15, 2007, to be

WHITE CANE SAFETY DAY

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 10th day of October in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-second and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eighteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE