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Doug Carlson, Chairman of the Environmental Learning Center Education <br />Program pointed out that in 2002 the County Commissioners participated and did not win, but their <br />staff participated this year and were winners of the award, with that he presented a metal <br />sculptured art crab to the Board. <br />S.B. PRESENTATION BY MARIA ZUCARO OF THE WORLD <br />TRADE CENTER - 2004 WESTERN HEMISPHERE OUTLOOK <br />CONFERENCE IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - <br />FEBRUARY 4, 2004 <br />Maria Zucaro of the World Trade Center of West Palm Beach said the United <br />States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. has elected them to host the 2004 Western <br />Hemisphere Conference. It is a one -day conference for business people to meet the U.S. <br />commercial officers posted at various embassies in the U.S. Hemisphere. These commercial <br />officers act as trade liaisons to bring U.S. businesses opportunities in their assigned countries. The <br />conference will be held on February 4 in West Palm Beach at the Kravis Center. She extended an <br />invitation to the Board to attend the conference and thanked them for the opportunity to make this <br />presentation. <br />S.C. PRESENTATION OF PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING <br />JANUARY 29, 2004 AS THOMAS PAINE DAY <br />Commissioner Neuberger read and presented the proclamation to Robert Walsh, <br />who gratefully accepted the proclamation giving a brief synopsis of Thomas Paine's role in <br />American history towards our independence. Thomas Paine's Friends of Massachusetts, a 501-3C <br />non-profit organization, has resolutions from nine states including Florida, and is working with <br />other states declaring January 291h as Thomas Paine Day. An American in Germany is presently <br />January 20, 2004 3 <br />