Session of 1999
SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1804
A Resolution congratulating and commending Julie Russell and Kansans Respond
with Mary Becker as Director.
WHEREAS, Julie Russell is a nurse and college sociology instructor
residing with her family in the Argentine district of Kansas City, Kansas;
and
WHEREAS, Julie Russell began a 700 mile Witness to Poverty Walk
across Kansas commencing at Syracuse on June 12, 1998, and concluding
in Topeka on July 22, 1998. Julie Russell serves as board president of
Kansans Respond, a grass-roots advocacy group for the poor, which she
represented along her walk. She has previously completed two walks from
Kansas City to Topeka, the last being at the start of the 1998 legislative
session to create awareness of the plight of lower income Kansans; and
WHEREAS, Julie Russell's goal, as she walked across Kansas and met
with individuals, community groups and the media, was to raise con-
sciousness about poverty in our state and to challenge others to begin
work in their own communities to bring about change for those in need:
Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas: That we congrat-
ulate and commend Julie Russell for her 700 mile Witness to Poverty
Walk across Kansas and Mary Becker, Kansans Respond volunteers and
all who welcomed Julie Russell in their homes and at their tables during
her strenuous mission of care; and
Be it further resolved: That the Secretary of the Senate be directed
to send five enrolled copies of this resolution to Senator Biggs.
Senate Resolution No. 1804 was sponsored by Senator Donald E. BiggsI hereby certify that the above RESOLUTION originated in the SENATE,
and was adopted by that body
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