Bill Text: IL SR0085 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares May 20, 2021 as "Marvin Perzee County Fair Day" in the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-19 - Referred to Assignments [SR0085 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SR0085-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Marvin E. Perzee devoted 54 years of his life in | ||||||
3 | service to the Iroquois County Fair and the larger county fair | ||||||
4 | community of Illinois; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee joined the Iroquois County | ||||||
6 | Agricultural & 4-H Fairs Association in 1965 at the age of 22, | ||||||
7 | serving as president beginning in 1973 and vice president in | ||||||
8 | 2019; he was instrumental in advocating for issues affecting | ||||||
9 | farmers and agriculture and developed an unrivaled knowledge | ||||||
10 | of the inner workings of the Iroquois County Fair; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Beginning in 1979, Marvin Perzee was a member of | ||||||
12 | the legislative committee for the Illinois Association
of | ||||||
13 | Agricultural Fairs and served as its chairman for 40 years; | ||||||
14 | also beginning in 1979, he served
as vice president of the | ||||||
15 | Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs Association's | ||||||
16 | Northern District, and from 1982 to 1983, he served as | ||||||
17 | president; and
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18 | WHEREAS, From 1983-1984, Marvin Perzee was a member of the | ||||||
19 | advisory board for the
Division of Fairs and Horse Racing; | ||||||
20 | from 1984 to 1989, he was director of the Illinois Association | ||||||
21 | of
Agricultural Fairs; in 1984, he was the recipient of the | ||||||
22 | Department of Agriculture's Fairman of the Year Award; from
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1 | 1990 to 1998, he was appointed to the State Fair Advisory | ||||||
2 | Board; from 1990 to 1991, he was president
of the Illinois | ||||||
3 | Association of Agricultural Fairs; from 1992 to 1996, he was | ||||||
4 | director-at-large of the
Illinois Association of Agricultural | ||||||
5 | Fairs; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee led the Ashkum Chargers 4-H Club, | ||||||
7 | starting in 1965; he served on the Iroquois County Extension | ||||||
8 | Council from 1971 to 1981; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee even met his wife, Sharon, while | ||||||
10 | she was working with county fairs throughout the State; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Marvin Perzee was a farmer first; he received the | ||||||
12 | American Farmer Degree from the FFA in 1963; in 1973, he | ||||||
13 | received the Outstanding Young Farmer Award from the Illinois | ||||||
14 | Jaycees; in 1999, he received Prairie Farmer's Master Farmer | ||||||
15 | Award; from 1999 to 2003, he was appointed
to Attorney General | ||||||
16 | Jim Ryan's advisory board; in 2005, he received the Watseka | ||||||
17 | Times-Republic's
Lifetime Achievement Award; in 2006, he and | ||||||
18 | Sharon received the Kankakee Daily Journal's Farm
Family of | ||||||
19 | the Year Award; in 2007, he was inducted into the University of | ||||||
20 | Illinois' 4-H Hall of
Fame; therefore, be it
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21 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | ||||||
22 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare May 20, 2021 |
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1 | as "Marvin Perzee County Fair Day" in the State of Illinois in | ||||||
2 | recognition of his tireless efforts to promote agriculture and | ||||||
3 | county fairs across the State; and be it further
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4 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
5 | presented to Sharon Perzee as a symbol of our respect and | ||||||
6 | esteem.
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