WHEREAS childhood obesity rates have more than tripled since 1980, and American Obesity Association figures show one in six children is classified as obese; and

        WHEREAS Subway restaurants have launched Subway Fresh Fit, a national branding campaign designed to focus public attention on healthier diet and exercise options, and have taken a national leadership role in the fight against obesity, in order to help children and youth live longer, healthier lives; and

        WHEREAS two age-group contest winners will be announced at the Women’s Show of the St. Luke’s Women’s Fitness Celebration in Boise on September 21, and each will receive a $1000 check for their sponsoring school or youth organization to purchase fitness equipment, and a cash card good for family meals at Subway for a year; and

        WHEREAS being a proud corporate sponsor of the St. Luke’s Women’s Fitness Celebration 15th Anniversary, Subway of Boise will bring Subway weight-loss superstar, Jared Fogle, to the St. Luke’s Women’s Show and 5K ;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim September 20-22, 2007 to be

SUBWAY/ ST. LUKE’S FITNESS AWARENESS DAYS

 

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 12th day of September 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