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r <br />OOK 107 PDGFJ 7 <br />14.B. SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL DISTRICT <br />The Chairman announced that the Board would convene as the Board of <br />Commissioners of the Solid Waste Disposal District at the conclusion of the meeting. Those <br />Minutes are being prepared separately. <br />H.C. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD <br />The Chairman announced that the Board would convene as the Board of <br />Commissioners of the Environmental Control Board at the conclusion of the Solid Waste <br />Disposal District meeting. Those Minutes are being prepared separately. <br />DOCUMENTS TO BE MADE PART OF THE RECORD - <br />PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER_ AS <br />__ <br />"NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH" M <br />October 20, .1998 <br />PROCLAMATION <br />DESIGNATING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. IM AS <br />NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH <br />IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />WHEREAS, the challenge of bread career and the needs of women who mast battle this <br />disease are significant and growing; and <br />WHEREAS. oro out of every aim women will develop the disease in her lifetime; and <br />WHEREAS, in 199S. 11,800 woman in FtmidawID be diagnosed witb brews. cmrcer and 2,900 <br />will die from died - eight woman wary day; and <br />WHEREAS, momtkm 1.5 mt7lianwomen aver gp 65, combined with the fsctdomom than <br />half of a0 breast cancers vers occur in woman age 65 or older, account for Florida ranking third highest of <br />any state for beast cancer Incidence and deaths; and <br />WHEREAS, mammography has been estsblidied as a woman's most power id weapon to <br />detect the disease in its earliest, most treatable stage, and is at least in part, rmponswe for the <br />increase in disease Incidence; and <br />WHEREAS, carr- y, shay -six percent oftbe breast can= diagnosed in Florida am found <br />in an early stage when survival rates of 90% am achievable and <br />WHEREAS, the survival rate drops to 60% when We dismse is rot detected nmol them is <br />regional or dislam involvement: <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIDIIED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY <br />COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA that the monih of OcWw,1993 <br />be designated as <br />NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH <br />in Indian River County Florida, and the Board urges all rho manna woman is this county to have <br />regular mammogram examinations and do evarytldng tluey can to battle this dreaded disease. <br />Adapted this 20 day of October, 1999 <br />74 <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />nrr <br />