National Safe Boating WeekOFFICE OF THE MAYOR
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, more Americans each year are choosing recreational
boating as an ideal way to relax with their families and friends.
However, what starts out as a pleasant cruise often ends in
tragedy because boaters fail to teach their families to swim,
fail to properly equip their craft with Personal Floatation
Devices and other protective equipment, or fail to instruct their
passengers in the use of such devices prior to a boating cruise;
and
WHEREAS, every year hundreds of lives are lost in boating
accidents. These fatalities can be reduced and boating made more
pleasurable if those who engage in it will emphasize knowledge,
care and courtesy necessary for safe boating; and
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States, having
recognized the need for such emphasis, has, by a joint resolution
of 4 June 1958 (72 Stat. 179), requested the President to
annually proclaim one week as National Safe Boating Week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I Robert Pool, Mayor of the City of
Clermont, do hereby designate the week beginning June 2nd 1985,
as
NATIONAL SAFE BOATING WEEK IN CLERMONT
I urge all who use out waterways to acquire those skills and
knowledges essential to their own safety and that of others and
to apply them carefully.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set may hand this 14th
day of May
in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and eighty five.
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R bert Pool
Mayor , the City of Clermont