File #: 17-5252    Version: 1 Name: HONORING KEN BEDFORD
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 9/11/2017 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 9/12/2017 Final action: 9/12/2017
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING KEN BEDFORD WHEREAS, Ken Bedford has provided 45 years of service as an Emmy and Peter Lisagor award-winning journalist; and WHEREAS, Ken Bedford has served as a cameraman for ABC-7 Chicago, the Oprah Winfrey Show, World News Tonight and for Barack Obama's 2008 victory celebration; and WHEREAS, Ken Bedford established Anaia's Breast Cancer Awareness Program, Inc. (ABCAP) after his wife, Anaia's, passing from breast cancer in 2004; and WHEREAS, ABCAP pays for uninsured and unemployed women who cannot pay for their mammograms; and WHEREAS, Ken Bedford is a promoter of the Chicago-based dance known as Steppin. His events attract national recording artists, who perform while steppers dance to their hit songs. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the President and the Cook County Board of Commissioners, on behalf of the residents of Cook County, recognize Ken Bedford for his essential contribution to the health and viability of Cook County.
Sponsors: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President)

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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

 

HONORING KEN BEDFORD

 

WHEREAS, Ken Bedford has provided 45 years of service as an Emmy and Peter Lisagor award-winning journalist; and

 

WHEREAS, Ken Bedford  has served as a cameraman for ABC-7 Chicago, the Oprah Winfrey Show, World News Tonight and for  Barack Obama’s 2008 victory celebration; and

 

WHEREAS, Ken Bedford established Anaia’s Breast Cancer Awareness Program, Inc. (ABCAP) after his wife, Anaia’s, passing from breast cancer in 2004; and

 

WHEREAS, ABCAP pays for uninsured and unemployed women who cannot pay for their mammograms; and

 

WHEREAS, Ken Bedford is a promoter of the Chicago-based dance known as Steppin. His events attract national recording artists, who perform while steppers dance to their hit songs.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the President and the Cook County Board of Commissioners, on behalf of the residents of Cook County, recognize Ken Bedford for his essential contribution to the health and viability of Cook County.

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