Bill Text: NY J00356 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Congratulating Mary Chesna upon the occasion of receiving the Girl Scout Silver Award, Cadette Scouting's highest award and Girl Scouting's second highest achievement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-02-07 - ADOPTED [J00356 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-J00356-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 356

BY: Senator MARTINS

        CONGRATULATING  Mary  Chesna  upon the occasion of
        receiving  the  Girl  Scout  Silver  Award,  Cadette
        Scouting's  highest award and Girl Scouting's second
        highest achievement

  WHEREAS, Mary Chesna, through her diligence  and  rigorous  efforts,
has  achieved  Cadette  Scouting's  highest  and  Girl Scouting's second
highest  achievement,  the  Silver  Award;  the  Willistons,  Albertson,
Roslyn, Mineola (W.A.R.M.) Girl Scout Association Award Ceremony will be
held  on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at Chaminade High School's Activity
Athletic Center in Mineola, New York; and

  WHEREAS, Mary Chesna is a member of the Girl Scouts of America Troop
1162; and

  WHEREAS, Girl Scouting has cultivated in our Nation's  young  people
the  goals  of building solid values of sisterhood and the importance of
working with others, stimulating both mind and body,  instilling  pride,
and encouraging community service and success; and

  WHEREAS,  Girl  Scouting  has expanded the horizons of the countless
hundreds of thousands who have participated in Scouting  programs  which
have made Scouting an American and international institution; and

  WHEREAS,  Mary  Chesna  completed  a  Silver Award community service
project to beautify the Williston Park Post Office  which  she  planned,
developed and executed; and

  WHEREAS,  Along  with  the  rest  of  her  troop, Mary Chesna worked
tirelessly to clean the weeds, trim bushes, lay  down  mulch,  sand  and
repaint  railings,  renovate two old worn four-foot benches to use for a
new eight foot elegantly stained bench, repaint  lanterns,  replace  all
the  shutters  on  the  front  of the building, and plant beautiful mums
outside the post office; and

  WHEREAS, Mary Chesna is a credit to  her  family,  her  school,  her
community,  her  State  and  her Nation, and no doubt her future will be
filled with accomplishments of equal importance; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
congratulate  Mary  Chesna,  recognizing  her achievement in earning the
Girl Scout Silver Award, and to wish her continued success  in  all  her
future endeavors; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to Mary Chesna.