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PROCLAMATION 1792 NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH 2017 r Whereas, more than 118,000 men, women and children in the United States currently need life-saving organ transplants and nearly 2,890 of those people are North Carolinians; and Whereas, an average of 18 people awaiting transplants die each day because there is a severe shortage of donated organs; and Whereas, every eight minutes, another name is added to the national transplant waiting list; and Whereas, providing facts about donation and dispelling misinformation and myths are key to increasing the number of people who sign up as donors; and Whereas, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NC DMV) plays a critical role with nearly five million North Carolinians in the state's donor registry having registered when receiving a driver's license or state ID card; and Whereas, one organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people and improve many more lives through tissue and cornea donation; and Whereas, North Carolinians are encouraged to get the facts about donation, discuss their wishes with their family and sign up as donors via the NC DMV or online at www.donatelifenc.org/register; and WHEREAS, Residents of Cabarrus County have been touched by donation as recipients of life-saving transplants and as members of donor families who have literally given others a second chance at life; and NOW, BE IT RESOLVED, we, the members of the Cabarrus Board of County Commissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April, 2017 to be NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH In Cabarrus County and urge our residents to give serious thought to the importance of eye, organ and tissue donation and to consider joining the North Carolina Donor Registry and further, to notify their family members that they have done so. Adopted this the 20th day of March, 2017. Stephen M. Morris, Chairman Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners Attachment number 1 \n C-4 Page 46