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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING AND CONGRATULATING JOSEPH CONNORS ON HIS RETIREMENT AS

AN EAST PROVIDENCE CITY SERGEANT

     Introduced By: Senators Lawson, Conley, Coyne, Ruggerio, and Algiere

     Date Introduced: February 12, 2020

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, Joseph “Joey” Connors, a lifelong resident of East Providence, is retiring

after twenty-two years of exemplary and devoted service as a City Sergeant for East Providence,

beginning his service with the City Council in 1998, and later for the Municipal Court; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Connors made history when he became the first Down Syndrome

person in the nation to serve as a United States Senate Page, after being appointed by then Rhode

Island United States Senator John Chaffee; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Connors has excelled for the past forty years as a Rhode Island Special

Olympian. He was given the high honor of lighting the Special Olympics torch at the 50-year

Rhode Island Special Olympics Anniversary in 2018, and has always represented our State and

the Special Olympics cause with passion and dignity; and

     WHEREAS, It is fitting that the Mayor of East Providence, will be declaring February

18, 2020, to be “Sergeant Joseph ‘Joey’ Connors Day” in the City of East Providence; now,

therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby honors and congratulates Joseph Connors on his retirement as an East Providence City

Sergeant; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is directed to transmit a duly

certified copy of this resolution to Mr. Joseph Connors.

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