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JUN <br />3 1981 <br />46 FAf,F <br />610 <br />CHAIRMAN LYONS <br />THEN READ THE FOLLOWING PROCLAMATION AND <br />PRESENTED IT TO MR. RYAN OF THE COAST GUARD AUXILIARY: <br />n <br />PROCLAMATION <br />WHEREAS, more Americans each -year are choosing recreational boating <br />as an ideal way to relax with their families and friends. <br />All too often, however, what starts out as a pleasant <br />cruise ends in tragedy because boatmen fail to teach their <br />families to swim, fail to properly equip their craft with <br />life preservers and other protective devices, or fail to <br />instruct their passenger on the use of such devices prior <br />to a boating cruise; and <br />WHEREAS, every year, about 1300 lives are lost in boating accidents. <br />These fatalities can .be reduced and boating made more <br />pleasurable if those who engage in it will emphasize boating <br />safety rules; and <br />WHEREAS, recognizing the need for that emphasis, the Congress, by a <br />joint resolution approved June 4, 1958 (72 Stat. 179), has <br />requested the President to proclaim the week of June 7-13, <br />1981, as National Safe Boating Week. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River <br />County, Florida, do hereby designate the week beginning <br />June 7, 1981, as <br />NATIONAL SAFE BOATING WEEK IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />I urge all who use our waterways to acquire those skills <br />essential to their own safety and that of others and to <br />apply them carefully. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 3rd day of <br />June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty- <br />-one. <br />P trick nsrt. <br />rman <br />and of County 'ssioners of <br />Indian River Cou Florida <br />40 <br />