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Rexburg Founder's Day March 11, 2023 Q7 9s
Mayor Jerry Merrill °
35 North Pt East mayor@rexburg.org Phone: 208.359.3020
Rexburg, ID83440 www.rexburg.org Fax:208.359.3022 SHED 1a
PROCLAMATION
No. 2023 — 01
2023 Rexburg Founder's Day Proclamation
WHEREAS, in the Spring of 1883, Thomas E Ricks, together with a small group of individuals
selected the area currently known as Rexburg as an area for settlement; and
WHEREAS, the City of Rexburg does not have an official day designated to celebrate and
commemorate the founding of the City; and
WHEREAS, the people of Rexburg have long had a love and deep sense of pride in their pioneer
roots and founding fathers who strived to beautify this community through diligent hard work and
sacrifice in developing canals, roadways, homes, and businesses; and
WHEREAS, having an official day declared to celebrate the beginnings of our great community
would further inspire deep community pride and unity amongst its citizens; and
WHEREAS, it is widely accepted by historians that the date that the streets of Rexburg were
surveyed and outlined by Andrew S. Anderson was March 11, 1883; now
THEREFORE, be it resolved that I, Jerry Merrill, mayor of the city of Rexburg, do hereby declare
March 11`' as Rexburg Founder's Day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of
Rexburg to be affixed this 1" day of March in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three.
ATTEST:
Deborah Lovejoy
REXBURG CITY CLERK
APPROVED:
erry M
MAYO
Instrument # 455045
REXBURG, MADISON, IDAHO
3-2-2023 10:13:58 AM No. of Pages: 1
Recorded for: CITY OF REXBURG
KIM H. MUIR Fee: 10.00
Ex-Officio Recorder Deputy