HomeMy WebLinkAbout4. MAYORS REPORT 9/6/05
PROCLAMA TION
"SA VE A LIFE MONTH"
September 2005
WHEREAS, Save a Life Foundation's miSSIOn is training and developing people,
starting with schoolchildren, to be active bystanders equipped with basic Life
Supporting First Aid skills to aid during emergencies; and
WHEREAS, Save a Life Foundation, utilizes only Emergency Medical Service
Professionals as Instructors to teach basic Life Supporting First Aid techniques,
including Cardiopulmonary-Resuscitation (CPR), the Heimlich maneuver, and the use
of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to schoolchildren, grades K-12 and
adults; and
WHEREAS, the u.s. Surgeon General recognizes Save a Life Foundation's, life-
supporting first aid training programs as a medical component to his "Year of the
Healthy Child" initiative.
WHEREAS, basic Life Supporting First Aid Techniques, such as CPR, Heimlich
maneuver, and the use of an AED are essential in maintaining life prior to EMS
arrival; and
WHEREAS, Save a Life Foundation, an affiliate of the U. S. Department of Homeland
Security, Citizen Corps, encourages all municipalities to recognize Save A Life Month
in conjunction with Homeland Security's National Preparedness Month, a nationwide
effort to encourage Americans to prepare for emergencies; and
WHEREAS, Save a Life Foundation will coordinate this year a national awareness
campaign of activities for Save A Life Month to promote life supporting first aid
training along with Citizen Corps and Medical Reserve Corps; and
WHEREAS, the month of September 2005 has been designated as National Save A Life
Month, and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Paul Wm. Hoefert, Mayor Pro Tem of the Village of Mount
Prospect, do hereby proclaim September, 2005 as
"SA VE A LIFE MONTH"
in the Village of Mount Prospect and I encourage residents to become trained in basic
life saving first aid techniques.
Paul Wm. Hoefert
Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST:
M. Lisa Angell
Village Clerk
Dated this 61h day of September, 2005.