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March 19, 2012 (Regular Meeting) Page 990 WHEREAS, LifeShare Of The Carolinas is focused on saving lives by increasing participation in the North Carolina organ, eye and tissue donor registry; and WHEREAS, April is observed as National Donate Life Month with unwavering support from the nation's donation and transplantation community; and WHEREAS, LifeShare Of The Carolinas, the organ procurement organization that serves Cabarrus County, is a part of that community and has its own programs to highlight the importance of donating to save the lives of others; and WHEREAS, Over 3,400 North Carolina residents and 110,000 people nationwide are in need of life - saving transplants; 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 WHEREAS, It is an honor and privilege to have some of those residents in attendance at the Board of Commissioners Meeting of Cabarrus County to present the Board with a Donate Life flag. NOW, BE IT RESOLVED, we, the members of the Cabarrus Board of County Commissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April, 2012 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 if so desired, to join the North Carolina Donor Registry and further, to notify their family members that they have done so. Adopted this the 19 day of March, 2012. /s/ Elizabeth F. Poole Elizabeth F. Poole, Chairman Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners C -2) BOC - Proclamation Declarinq March 21, 2012 as "Kick Butts Day 2012" Cabarrus Health Alliance Teen Task Force members Addison White (Senior at Jay M. Robinson), Emily Gale (Junior at Northwest Cabarrus) , Chris Dotson (Senior at First Assembly Christian School) , and Bo White (Sophomore at Jay M. Robinson) presented statistics on teen smoking and announced a "Kick Butts Day" event will be held on Wednesday, March 21S from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Les Myers Park in Concord. Volunteers will pick up cigarette butts at the Park. Chairman Poole read the proclamation aloud. She also recognized Megan Poole, Cabarrus Health Alliance Program Coordinator, in attendance. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Measmer, seconded by Vice Chairman Burrage and unanimously carried, the Board adopted the Proclamation Declaring April 2012 as National Donate Life Month in Cabarrus County and the Proclamation Declaring March 21, 2012 as "Kick Butts Day 2012 ". Proclamation No. 2012 -03 Proclamation Declaring March 21, 2012 as "Kick Butts Day 2012" Whereas, nationwide, nearly one fifth of all high school students (grades 9- 12) are current smokers; along with nearly one out of every fourteen eighth graders; and Whereas, three million high school students are current smokers; and more than a third of all kids who ever try smoking a cigarette become new regular, daily smokers before leaving high school; and Whereas, one out of three youth smokers will ultimately die prematurely from smoking- related diseases, unless current trends are reversed; and Whereas, smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans each year, representing more deaths than from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires combined; and