Bill Text: IL SR0112 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares November 2, 2021 as Brazinski Family Farm Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Assignments [SR0112 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SR0112-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Brazinski Pork Farm of Coulterville received | ||||||
| 3 | the 2021 Illinois Pork Producers Association Family of the | ||||||
| 4 | Year Award; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, The Brazinski Pork Farm produces 34,000 market | ||||||
| 6 | hogs per year and runs a row crop farming operation that | ||||||
| 7 | includes 2,200 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The Brazinski Pork Farm is a family farm and is | ||||||
| 9 | led by Jim Brazinski; he is president of the pig production | ||||||
| 10 | companies Grand View Farm and Grand Tower Farm and a service | ||||||
| 11 | agency Corn Silk LLC and owns Brazinski Pork Farm; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Jim Brazinski's family has an extensive farming | ||||||
| 13 | background; the maternal side of his family arrived in the | ||||||
| 14 | U.S. in the 1850s; his paternal family fled Lithuania due to | ||||||
| 15 | political tensions; his grandfather established the family | ||||||
| 16 | farm in Coulterville in the 1920s; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Jim Brazinski's parents raised their children | ||||||
| 18 | along with many animals on their farm; his brother began | ||||||
| 19 | raising hogs for a 4-H project in 1966; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Jim Brazinski graduated from SIU Carbondale in | ||||||
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| 1 | 1984 and started constructing more hog buildings on their | ||||||
| 2 | family farm with the family doing most of the construction to | ||||||
| 3 | keep costs down; they still build a lot of equipment in their | ||||||
| 4 | shop today; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, In 2006, upon the suggestion of Dr. Bill Hollis, | ||||||
| 6 | the Brazinski Family Farm joined a sow farm to improve the | ||||||
| 7 | consistency of their pig flows and to be able to raise larger | ||||||
| 8 | groups of pigs all the same age; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Family has always been a huge part of the | ||||||
| 10 | Brazinski Pork Farm values; Jim Brazinski and his siblings | ||||||
| 11 | continue to make sure that their mother, who has Alzheimer's | ||||||
| 12 | disease, is taken care of along with their father; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, After several failed attempts to use caregiving | ||||||
| 14 | agencies, the Brazinski family decided to form a small LLC | ||||||
| 15 | called Corn Silk and hire their own caregivers; they formed | ||||||
| 16 | Corn Silk with the belief that care needed to be | ||||||
| 17 | compassionate, reliable, and the best possible for their | ||||||
| 18 | parents; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, The farm currently employs six full-time | ||||||
| 20 | employees and two part-time employees and has a total of four | ||||||
| 21 | farms that contract finish hogs for the Brazinski family; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, The Brazinski family continues to strive to | ||||||
| 2 | produce the best possible pork; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, A 13-year member of the Marissa School Board, Jim | ||||||
| 4 | Brazinski is an avid volunteer and is a member of St. Anthony's | ||||||
| 5 | Lively Grove Catholic Church; he remains grateful, especially | ||||||
| 6 | when reminded of the hardships that his family has had to | ||||||
| 7 | endure; therefore, be it
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| 8 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | ||||||
| 9 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare November 2, | ||||||
| 10 | 2021 as Brazinski Family Farm Day; and be it further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 12 | presented to the Brazinski family as a sign of our respect and | ||||||
| 13 | esteem.
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