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To honor and recognize Jazmine Joyce as the 2008 recipient of the Donald K. Day Scholarship Award in behalf of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists' 21st Annual Labor's Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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WHEREAS, Ms. Joyce represents the young leadership that will be charged with continuing to carry the torch in pursuit of the dream that Dr. King so eloquently articulated at The March on Washington on August 28th, 1963; and
WHEREAS, Through her strength of conceiving and implementing ideas she organized the Impact Club which provided students the opportunity to be involved in community services such as: tutoring at local elementary schools, paper recycling, and "Pennies for Patients."; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Joyce has been honored as a Classroom Scholar and is consistently on the honor roll and her peers selected her to serve as Senior Senator for the Columbus Public Schools Student Congress; and
WHEREAS, She is a member of Youth to Youth, serves on the YAB Speaker's Bureau, has served as a volunteer for Columbus Public Schools Special Olympics, the Ohio State Fair, the Mid Ohio Food Bank and Children's Hospital; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council does hereby recognize and honor Jazmine Joyce, the 2008 Donald K. Day Scholarship Award recipient, on this 5th day of January 2008.