Bill Text: IL HR1007 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Recognizes and thanks Blondell Plumbing for serving the Quad Cities community for the past 120 years.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-11-29 - Resolution Adopted [HR1007 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HR1007-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
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| 3 | Representatives wish to recognize Blondell Plumbing on | ||||||
| 4 | providing 120 years of service to the Quad Cities
community; | ||||||
| 5 | and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Blondell Plumbing was originally founded as | ||||||
| 7 | Swanson Plumbing by Victor Swanson in 1902; in the century | ||||||
| 8 | that
followed, the business was passed down to family members | ||||||
| 9 | three times,
first to Victor's daughter Marion in 1941, then | ||||||
| 10 | to
Walt Blondell in the mid-1960s, and finally to Walt's son | ||||||
| 11 | Steve in 2002; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Blondell Plumbing gained its current name in | ||||||
| 13 | 1941; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Blondell Plumbing's various owners have invested | ||||||
| 15 | much of their own time and energy
in learning, practicing, and | ||||||
| 16 | sharing their knowledge of their trade, with many entering the | ||||||
| 17 | trade and business directly after finishing school and | ||||||
| 18 | continuing to help around the business well into retirement; | ||||||
| 19 | the business
has also served as a great place of education for | ||||||
| 20 | the next generations of
tradesmen through its apprenticeship | ||||||
| 21 | programs with the Local 25 Union; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Blondell Plumbing has been crucial to the | ||||||
| 2 | completion of
many area projects in the Quad Cities, including | ||||||
| 3 | residential and commercial buildings;
the business' team has | ||||||
| 4 | also helped to build a community of respect, cooperation, and
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| 5 | friendship among various contractors in the area through | ||||||
| 6 | collaboration on
large projects; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Blondell Plumbing has developed a reputation as | ||||||
| 8 | an upstanding
and reliable business within the community | ||||||
| 9 | through cultivating relationships
with clients in the | ||||||
| 10 | community over several generations, permitting the business
to | ||||||
| 11 | continue to rely solely on word-of-mouth advertising; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, With the retirement of Blondell Plumbing's | ||||||
| 13 | current owner, Steve Blondell, in 2022,
the business will | ||||||
| 14 | close after over a century of operating in Moline; therefore, | ||||||
| 15 | be it
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| 16 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 17 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 18 | we recognize and thank Blondell Plumbing for serving
the Quad | ||||||
| 19 | Cities community for the past 120 years; and be it further
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| 20 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
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| 21 | presented to the owners of Blondell Plumbing as a symbol of our
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| 22 | respect and esteem.
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