County Councilor James Chrobocinski presents a proclamation at the May 16 Council meeting to longtime American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Chair Marie Todd, right, and her assistant Randi Moore proclaiming May 26 as Poppy Day in Los Alamos. Todd will be selling poppies noon to 4 p.m. Friday at Smith’s in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
County Councilors donate and receive a poppy from American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Chair Marie Todd and her assistant Randi Moore. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Chair Marie Todd and her assistant Randi Moore present poppies to County Manager Harry Burgess and County Attorney Alvin Leaphart. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Staff Report
Los Alamos County Council proclaimed May 26, 2017 as “Poppy Day” in Los Alamos County during its May 16 meeting in Council Chambers.
Proclamation
WHEREAS: The American Legion Auxiliary adopted the poppy as its memorial flower at its organization convention in Kansas City in October 1921; and
WHEREAS: The Auxiliary has pledged that proceeds from poppy sales will go to welfare relief for service men and women and their families, thus fulfilling the meaning of the poppy as an emblem of faith kept with all who have given their lives to preserve our freedom; and
WHEREAS: The red memorial poppies worn throughout the nation on Poppy Day are made by veterans in hospitals and workshops in forty states; poppies sold in Los Alamos are made by patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albuquerque; and
WHEREAS: The citizens of Los Alamos are given an opportunity each year to pay tribute to all who have died in the service of our country, as well as an opportunity to help with the fine work of the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary, by wearing a poppy and thereby contributing to the American Legion Auxiliary’s service to the living;
NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the Council of the Incorporated County of Los Alamos, I do hereby proclaim Friday, May 26th, 2017 as
“POPPY DAY”
in Los Alamos County, and urge our citizens to wear a poppy with pride on this occasion.
