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ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER MASSEY, SECONDED BY COM- <br />MISSIONER"SIEBERT, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING <br />PROCLAMATION DECLARING OCTOBER 6, 1974 AS "ST, FRANCIS MANOR DAY" <br />PROCLAMATION <br />WHEREAS, a group of public-spirited citizens seeking to render <br />services to the community have organized themselves into anon -profit <br />corporation known as St. Francis Manor of Vero Beach, Florida, Inc. <br />for the purpose of providing needed low-cost rental apartments for <br />elderly people with limited incomes; and <br />WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River <br />County has cooperated with this group of citizens by entering into <br />a lease of lands owned by the County t'o make property available for <br />i <br />the -construction of apartments to (serve the needs of the community; <br />and j <br />WHEREAS, this organization has now completed the first unit of <br />i <br />apartments to be built.upon the lands so made available, and the <br />opening of said apartments for occupancy has been set for October6, i <br />i <br />} <br />1974• and <br />WHEREAS, the date thereof of such opening coincides with World <br />a <br />Communion Sunday set aside yearly by all participating Protestant <br />churches for the -purpose of prayers for Christian unity and world <br />peace and is also a day of prayer for all Christians of all <br />denominations in an ecumenical movement looking toward the achieve- <br />ment of human brotherhood; and <br />WHEREAS, said date also reflects the Feast Day on October 4th <br />of St. Francis of Assisi, a man who dedicated his life to the service <br />-of humanity and is honored as such by the world at large irrespective <br />of denominational ties; and <br />WHEREAS, the aim of the sponsors of St. Francis Manor is to <br />provide low-cost rental units for all elderly persons of limited <br />incomes without respect to race or creed; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, I, Alma Lee Loy, Chairman of the Board of <br />County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, do hereby <br />-12- <br />';EP 25.1974 BOOK <br />