Bill Text: HI HR183 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prudential Spirit of Community Awards; Commendation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-03-20 - (H) Resolution adopted in final form. [HR183 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HR183-Introduced.html
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HOUSE RESOLUTION |
H.R. NO. |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
cOMMENDING AND CONGRATULATING THE PRUDENTIAL SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY 2012 hAWAII STATE HONOREES AND 2012 hAWAII STATE DISTINGUISHED FINALISTS.
WHEREAS, the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards is the United States' largest youth recognition program based on volunteer community service; and
WHEREAS, the awards were created in 1995 by Prudential in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to honor middle and high school students at the local, state, and national levels for outstanding service to other; and
WHEREAS, over the past seventeen years, more than 310,000 young Americans have participated in the program and more than 95,000 of them have been officially recognized for their volunteer work; and
WHEREAS, the program strives to both acknowledge young people who are making a positive difference and to inspire others to think about how they might contribute to the well being of their communities; and
WHEREAS, the top middle and high school students from Hawaii will receive a silver medallion and a $1,000 scholarship and will travel to Washington D.C.; and
WHEREAS, the two 2012 Hawaii State Honorees are Candonino Agusen and Jackson Button; and
WHEREAS, Candonino Agusen, 16, of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, a junior at Kealakehe High School, helped raise more than $64,000 to buy temporary housing kits for hundreds of people displaced by the earthquake in Japan last year and an additional $2,000 by making Senbazuru, one thousand origami cranes, strung together; and
WHEREAS, Jackson Button, 13, of Waialua, Hawaii, an eighth-grader at Hawaii Technology Academy in Waipahu, co-founded a nonprofit organization with his sisters that has raised nearly $100,000 to support a wide variety of projects aiding children in Africa, Mexico and the United States; and
WHEREAS, the money raised so far has been used to provide scholarships to children who have lost a parent to cancer or other diseases, a solar heater for a Mexican orphanage, four acres of fertile farm land in Uganda for an orphanage of children with HIV/AIDS, the orphanage's first dormitory and staff housing, school supplies and backpacks for underprivileged kids in Hawaii and a therapeutic riding horse for disabled children; and
WHEREAS, the 2012 Hawaii State Distinguished Finalists are Scott Fetz and Jessica Sonson; and
WHEREAS, Scott Fetz, 16, of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, a sophomore at Hawaii Preparatory Academy in Kamuela, is a passionate community advocate and volunteer whose service began when he opened and managed a school store that raised more than $12,000 to purchase school supplies and is an active member of numerous service groups, including SADD, American Red Cross, and the Service Learning Advisory Council, and has created a number of school service projects including a beautification project and a unity program; and
WHEREAS, Jessica Sonson, 17, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, a senior at Lanakila Baptist Jr. and Sr. High School, is an active volunteer who currently serves her school as the president of the National Honor Society and as the president of the student council and is a weekly volunteer at the Pali Momi Medical Center where she assists staff and helps patients with their basic needs; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2012, that this body commends and congratulates Candonino Agusen and Jackson Button as the 2012 Hawaii State Honorees and Scott Fetz and Jessica Sonson as 2012 Hawaii State Distinguished Finalists.
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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards; Commendation
