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PROCLAMATION <br />NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH <br />WHEREAS, LifeShare Of The Carolinas is focused on saving lives by increasing <br />participation in the North Carolina organ, eye and tissue donor registry; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, April is observed as National Donate Life Month with unwavering support <br />from the nation's donation and transplantation community; and <br />WHEREAS, LifeShare Of The Carolinas, the organ procurement organization that <br />serves Cabarrus County, is a part of that community and has its own <br />programs to highlight the importance of donating to save the lives of <br />others; and <br />WHEREAS, Over 3,370 North Carolina residents and 121,021 people nationwide are <br />in need of life- saving transplants; and <br />WHEREAS, Residents of Cabarrus County have been touched by donation as <br />recipients of life- saving transplants and as members of donor families <br />who have literally given others a second chance at life; and <br />NOW, BE IT RESOLVED, we, the members of the Cabarrus Board of County <br />Commissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April, 2014 to be <br />NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH <br />In Cabarrus County and urge our residents to give serious thought to the importance of <br />eye, organ and tissue donation and if so desired, to join the North Carolina Donor <br />Registry and further, to notify their family members that they have done so. <br />Adopted this the 17 day of March, 2014. <br />Elizabeth F. Poole, Chairman <br />Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br />C -1 Page 16 <br />