Childhood Cancer Awareness DayPROCLAMATION
VILLAGE OF NORTH PALM BEACH
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS DAY
WHEREAS, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) report
cancer as the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children between 0 and age 19; and
WHEREAS, childhood cancer spares no one, affecting kids from every race, color, ethnicity and
socioeconomic status; and
WHEREAS, each year 150 children in Palm Beach County are diagnosed with cancer; and
WHEREAS, childhood cancer does not just affect the child, but also impacts parents, grandparents,
loved ones, friends, neighbors, and communities; and
WHEREAS, a diagnosis of childhood cancer has a devastating financial and emotional impact on the
family; and
WHEREAS, Pediatric Oncology Support Team (POST) was founded to raise awareness and advocate for
childhood cancer fighters, and to provide the child and their families with the emotional and financial help
they desperately need; and
WHEREAS, September has been designated as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month; and
WHEREAS, POST is asking all those who live or work in Palm Beach County to "Go Gold" on
September 28, 2018 to help raise awareness of childhood cancer.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, David B. Norris, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the
Village of North Palm Beach, do hereby proclaim September 28, 2018 as:
CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS DAY
in the Village of North Palm Beach, Florida.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Village of North
Palm Beach to be affixed this 30th day of August, 2018.