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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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