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To Recognize and Congratulate Mike Nicholson for Receiving the 2018 Winter Create Columbus Commission Visionary Award
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WHEREAS, Mike Nicholson is a philanthropist, a community servant, and founder of the M. Nicholson’s Hip-Hop Fitness Program that focuses on exercise through dance; and
WHEREAS, Mike leads a team of part-time instructors who teach about 30 classes around Columbus every week with about 6500 regular participants; and
WHEREAS, Mike supports a long list of charities and foundations including the American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, She Has A Name, BESA for Bellies, and the Ohio suicide hotline along with many others; and
WHEREAS, Mike’s support of the Ohio suicide hotline is connected to his past struggles with suicide and mental illness; and
WHEREAS, Mike’s choice to publicly discuss mental illness and suicide has helped lower the negative stigma around these issues by showing there is a way to work through these struggles, be successful, and help others; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council does hereby recognize and congratulate Mike Nicholson for receiving the 2018 Winter Create Columbus Visionary Award.