Week of June 23, 2007 Proclaimed Amateur Radio Awareness Week in MI
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has once again proclaimed the last week in June to be Amateur Radio Awareness Week. Here's the proclamation:
State of Michigan Certificate of Proclamation
On behalf of the citizens of Michigan, I, Jennifer M. Granholm, do hereby proclaim the week of June 23, 2007, as Amateur Radio Awareness Week.
Whereas, Amateur Radio provides a bridge bewtween peoples, societies, and countries by creating friendships and the sharing of ideas; and,
Whereas, Amateur Radio Operators provide services to many of the state's Emergency Response Organizations including FEMA, The Michigan Department of Human Services, and the Office of Emergency Management, and also serve as weather spotters in the Skywarn program of the National Weather Service; and,
Whereas, in 2005, Amateur Radio Operators provided emergency communications during the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the United States and in the tsunami catastrophe overseas; and,
Whereas, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the leading organization for Amateur Radio in the USA; and,
Whereas, this year's Amateur Radio Field Day, taking place June 23-24, will be a 24-hour emergency encampment exercise and demonstration of the Radio Amateurs' skills and readiness to provide communications; and now therefor be it,
Resolved, that I, Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, do hereby proclaim the week of June 23, 2007 as Amateur Radio Awareness Week in Michigan.
signed,
Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor
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