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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING MEGAN ROY ON RECEIVING THE 2017 PRUDENTIAL SPIRIT OF

COMMUNITY AWARD

     Introduced By: Representatives Azzinaro, Kennedy, Filippi, O'Brien, and Solomon

     Date Introduced: February 15, 2017

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards is the largest youth recognition

program in the United States based entirely on volunteer service. All public and private middle

schools and high schools, as well as Girl Scout councils, county 4-H organizations, YMCAs,

American Red Cross Chapters and HandsON Network affiliates are eligible to select someone to

apply for a Prudential Spirit of Community Award. These honorees are then judged by an

independent panel based on criteria including personal initiative, effort, impact and personal

growth with one high school student and one middle school student being chosen from each state

and the District of Columbia; and

     WHEREAS, Since the Prudential Spirit of Community program began, more than

115,000 young volunteers have been honored at the local, state and national level. The program is

also conducted in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, India, China and Brazil; and

      WHEREAS, Megan Roy, a seventeen-year-old senior attending Westerly High School,

was chosen to receive the 2017 Prudential Spirit of Community Award. The independent panel of

judges were impressed by her longtime commitment to volunteering, in which she donated

hundreds of hours of her time over the past six years serving her community and assisting people

in need. Megan volunteered at the local food pantry where she packaged food and volunteered in

the thrift shop; and

     WHEREAS, Megan will join 102 State Honorees in Washington, D.C., where they will

tour our nation's capital landmarks, meet youth volunteers from across the globe, attend a gala

awards ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and visit with their

congressional representatives on Capitol Hill. On May 8, 2017, ten of the State Honorees, five

middle school students and five high school students, will be named America's top youth

volunteers of 2017. These distinguished national honorees will receive an additional $5000 grant,

gold medallions, crystal trophies, and a $5000 grant from the Prudential Foundation to be

awarded to the nonprofit charitable organization of their choice; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations hereby congratulates Megan Roy on receiving the 2017 Prudential Spirit

of Community Award. We wish her good luck at the competition and ceremonies in Washington

D.C., and continued success in attaining all her goals and aspirations in the future; and be it

further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Miss Megan Roy.

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